Disability Rights
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10th Circuit fixes oversight, overturns judge’s order in prisoner lawsuit
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Although the federal appeals court based in Denver declined on Tuesday to revisit its prior ruling making it easier for prison officials to defeat lawsuits from incarcerated plaintiffs, it corrected a seeming oversight and overturned a judge’s order that both sides took issue with. In March, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals…