Legal Opinion
Hagan v. Rogers
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 19, 2009No. 07-1412PublishedCited by 504 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
RENDELL, Circuit Judge.
The central question before this Court is whether it is clear and manifest that Congress, through the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act of 1995, intended to remove prisoners from the definition of “Persons” permitted to join claims under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20. We answer this question in the negative.
Appellants are fourteen state inmates of the Adult Diagnostic & Treatment Center in Avenel, New Jersey (“ADTC”). The prisoners jointly filed a single complaint, on behalf of themselves and a purported class, alleging that officials associated…
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