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$12,000 Settlement for California Prisoner in Equal Treatment Suit

Loaded on Oct. 28, 2015

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Lockdowns, 1964 Civil Rights Act. Location: California.

$12,000 Settlement for California Prisoner in Equal Treatment Suit

In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, prisoner Steven D. Brooks settled, in June 2013, for $12,000 his §1983 civil rights claim alleging violation of his eighth and fourteenth amendment rights with the California Department of ...

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