Property-prisoner personal.

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U.S. Appeals Court

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Arsberry v. Illinois. 244 F.3d 558 (7th Cir. 2001). Prison and jail inmates, inmates' families, and a public-interest law firm brought an action against a state, state agencies and officials, and telephone companies, challenging the practice by which prisons and jails each granted one telephone company the exclusive right to provide inmate telephone service in exchange for a portion of the revenues generated. The suit was brought under [ss] 1983, the Sherman Act, and state law. The federal district court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. The appeals court modified and affirmed the district court decision. According to the appeals...