Para-Profess. Law Clinic, SCI-Graterford v. Beard.

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U.S. Appeals Court

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Para-Profess. Law Clinic, SCI-Graterford v. Beard, 334 F.3d 301 (3rd Cir. 2003). Prison officials moved, under the provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), to terminate a nearly 14-year-old permanent injunction that required a prison law clinic to remain open. The district court granted the motion and prison inmates appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that PLRA did...