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Fed receiver Kelso seeks to move Stockton’s prison expansion lawsuit to federal court

Prison health-care receiver J. Clark Kelso has filed a notice to move a lawsuit filed against him over a proposed inmate medical center near Stockton to federal court in Sacramento.

The move drew criticism from local leaders as being "intellectually dishonest in the extreme."

The Stockton Greater Chamber of Commerce, city of Stockton and San Joaquin County filed suit in the San Joaquin County Superior Court on Nov. 17 in an attempt to force millions of dollars in concessions from the state…

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