Friday, August 25, 2017

Justices to settle dispute over prisoners' legal bills

August 25, 2017 at 09:16AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to resolve a dispute among lower courts over how much prisoners must pay their lawyers when they win civil rights lawsuits against their jailers.

The justices on Friday said they would review a ruling by the federal appeals court in Chicago that required a prisoner to pay his lawyers a quarter of the $308,000 judgment he won after being beaten by corrections officers at an Illinois prison.

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