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Idaho: Federal Court Unseals Pleadings, Holds CCA in Contempt for Violating Settlement Agreement
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2013, page 28
On August 16, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, sitting by designation, unsealed a number of court documents related to a contempt motion seeking sanctions against Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, for violating a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that alleged high ...
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Staffing,
Civil Procedure,
Contempt (Civil Procedure).
Location:
Idaho.
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