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Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds One-Hour Law Library Access
Loaded on April 9, 2015
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2015, page 60
Filed under:
Law Library Access/Adequacy.
Location:
Nebraska.
Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds One-Hour Law Library Access
by Mark Wilson
On June 13, 2014, the Nebraska Supreme Court held that a prisoner did not state a cognizable access to court claim because he failed to show actual injury resulting from a one-hour daily law library limitation.
Prisoners at Nebraska’s ...
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