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Ninth Circuit: PLRA Precludes Award of Attorney Fees Where Violation of Prisoner’s Rights is Not Affirmatively Established

The Ninth Circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(1), precludes an award of attorney fees in cases where a prisoner obtained relief but did not affirmatively establish a violation of protected rights.

Proceeding pro se, state prisoner Clark Allen Kimbrough filed a complaint in ...

 

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