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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Outrageous Lawsuits
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 13:56:17 EDT
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While many lawsuits filed from prison might be sheerly for nuisance
value, all the same the right to file suits pro se or in forma pauperis
is important.  Apart from individual protections, it has sometimes
been the source of important doctrine -- e.g. Gideon v Wainwright started
as an in forma pauperis petition.  So I suggest that requiring prisons
to maintain law libraries is pretty reasonable.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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