Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Daley
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided October 6, 2000No. 98-C-0518-CPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CRABB, District Judge.
Plaintiff Cedric Johnson has challenged the constitutionality of the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s limit on the amount of fees paid to prisoners’ counsel but not to non-prisoners’ counsel in successful civil rights cases. See 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2)-(3). Plaintiff is an inmate at Fox Lake Correctional Institution in Fox Lake, Wisconsin. He brought suit against defendant George M. Daley pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that defendant Daley had denied him adequate medical care for his liver disease in violation of the Eighth Amendment by not…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- Blum v. StensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Cedric Johnson v. George M. Daley, and United States of America, Intervenor-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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- Carbonell v. AcrishDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2001
- Jackson v. AustinDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 2003
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