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Benjamin v. Jacobson, No. 75 Civ 3073 (HB) (S.D.N.Y.) (935 F.Supp. 332) (July 23, 1996) (Judge Harold Jr. Baer)

Case rejected a broad series of constitutional challenges to the provisions of the PLRA that allow prisons to escape from the effect of "prospective relief" consent decrees.

Following his controversial about-face decisions in U.S. v. Bayless, 913 F.Supp. 232 and 921 F.Supp. 211, the mercurial Judge Baer has created another ...

 

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