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Ninth Circuit Again Rejects California’s Resistance to ADA Obligations
Loaded on Aug. 12, 2014
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2014, page 48
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Overcrowding,
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Rehabilitation Act.
Location:
California.
Ninth Circuit Again Rejects California’s Resistance to ADA Obligations
by Mark Wilson
On October 4, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court order requiring California prison officials to disseminate and implement a previously-negotiated County Jail Plan for disabled prisoners and parolees.
As previously reported in PLN ...
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