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PLRA Physical Injury and Administrative Exhaustion Requirements Not Retroactive
Loaded on July 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1999, page 10
A federal district court in Illinois held that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), which requires administrative exhaustion before prisoners file suit, and 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e), which requires physical injury, before prisoners can file suit, do not apply retroactively to suits filed before the PLRA's enactment on April 26, 1996. In ...
Filed under:
Toilets,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Physical Injury Rule,
Court Access,
Court Appearances.
Location:
Illinois.
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