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No Administrative Exhaustion Requirement in 7th Circuit
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1997, page 18
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that prisoners seeking money damages need not exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. The court also held a district court erred when it dismissed a complaint filed in forma pauperis solely because the plaintiff was already litigating another suit against ...
Filed under:
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Damages,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Filing Fees.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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