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· 12/20/1996

McCaslin v. Cornhusker State Industries

Citations

  • 952 F. Supp. 652
  • 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20088
  • 1996 WL 774884

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that a majority of jurisdictions, along with the EEOC and Department of Labor, do not consider prisoners employees
  • concluding that an inmate is not an employee because the “prisoner does not enter into a bargain with the prison to become a prisoner in order to be able to work in prison industries, as might a private individual who contracts with an employer”
  • municipal prisoner was not employee for workers’ compensation purposes

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Judges: Urbom

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