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Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Due to Non-Exhaustion and Statute of Limitations
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 18
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's summary judgment order that erroneously dismissed a Michigan prisoner's lawsuit for non-exhaustion and because it was time-barred.
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Court Access,
Legal Property,
Limitations.
Location:
Michigan.
On November 30, 2005, Michigan state prisoner Samuel Surles filed suit in federal court, alleging that prison officials at the Gus Harrison Correctional ...
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