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BOIVIN v. BLACK

No. 99-2085.

225 F.3d 36 (2000)

Raymond P. BOIVIN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Lt. Donald BLACK, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 5, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane Sleek, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Andrew Ketterer, Maine Attorney General, and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, were on brief, for appellant.

Stuart W. Tisdale, Jr., with whom Mary A. Davis and Tisdale & Davis, P.A. were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e (Supp. II 1996), altered the legal landscape in regard to several types of civil actions brought by prison inmates. Certain of these changes curtailed the amount of attorneys' fees that a prevailing prisoner-plaintiff could expect to obtain from his vanquished opponent. One such provision involves suits for money damages; when a prisoner secures a monetary judgment in a civil...

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