Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Outrageous Lawsuits Message-ID: <2374@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 04:15:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2374 Posted: Wed Jul 17 04:15:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 04:09:30 EDT References: <6258@ucla-cs.ARPA> <5559@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 13 > I don't know how much there is to this rumor, but I was told that > prisons (maybe only federal ones) are required to maintain a law > library for the prisoners. With the help of this facility many of > them have gotten quite good at filing "nuisance lawsuits" ... > incurring this kind of expense and hassle is > their way of getting back at the judicial system. Not to mention simply continuing their careers (i.e., ripping off the public) while nominally incarcerated. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell