Other Decisions Decision 09-1233 (23/05/2011)
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Date: 05/23/2011
Subject: The Supreme Court of the United States confirms the order issued by the court, which was created after the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, to reduce the number of prisoners in California aiming at decreasing overcrowding, which is considered as main cause of violation of the rights provided by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Parties: Brown, Governor of California, et al. v. Plata et al.
Original language: English
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