Gavel Report: Prisoners and Federal Civil Litigation

Repeal by implication is disfavored. Here, the Prisoners Litigation Reform Act does not repeal by implication Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20. Accordingly, prisoners are not precluded from permissive joinder. Hagan v. Rogers (3rd Cir. 2009).

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