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Failure to Exhaust Requires Hearing Before Dismissal
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 30
The court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner's failure to exhaust administrative remedies was not grounds for dismissal for failure to state a claim. The court also held that pro se prisoner litigants must be given an opportunity to contest dismissals for failing to exhaust administrative …
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Mental Health,
Involuntary Treatment/Drugging.
Location:
New York.
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