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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1995
Page
3
In Orlando Dole captured 45 percent at a Florida Federation of Republican Women straw poll with Lamar Alexander at 26 percent and Phil Gramm at 15 percent. Maxene Andrews of the Andrews Sisters died at 79 in Hyannis Massachusetts after a heart attack.
California inmates filed thousands of civil suits costing taxpayers millions. The AP analysis shows prison lawsuits exceeded 25 million dollars in the past year, with 4,363 prisoner suits in U.S. District Courts in 1994 and state defense costs rising from about one million to over ten million dollars. Proposals seek to deter frivolous claims while preserving valid rights.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller notes prisoner lawsuits climbed from 388 in 1988 to 563 in 1993. In federal Iowa courts up to 40 percent of civil cases are inmate suits. Cases include a shirt size dispute, white hose request, and 7.50 monthly lockup pay failing to cover postage. Gov. Branstad in May signed a law allowing deductions from inmates’ accounts to cover frivolous or malicious suit costs.
A year after Republicans seized Congress, Kentucky Mississippi and Louisiana governors races and Virginia state contests test party momentum. Democrats and Republicans push local issues to frame national policy outcomes as victors claim momentum heading into 1996.
Maria Herrera fled Honduras after gunmen killed her husband and hid with her infant. Now 39, she works as an office janitor and part time SEIU organizer, joining AFL-CIO efforts to recruit low wage immigrant workers and push for lasting protections.
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