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Ninth Circuit Adopts Test to Excuse Exhaustion of Administration Remedies for Retaliatory Threats
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2016, page 26
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals joined other circuits in holding that a prisoner’s fear of retaliation may be sufficient to render the grievance procedure unavailable. The Court adopted a test that requires both a subjective and objective basis for such claims.
The case involved the dismissal of a civil ...
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