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Courts Retain Power To Grant TROs Under PLRA
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 16
The District of Columbia (DC) Court of Appeals has vacated a district court ruling on the merits of a prisoner lawsuit where the district court also found that the prisoner plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit.
Filed under:
Transfers,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Injunctions (PLRA),
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Grooming.
Locations:
Virginia,
Washington.
Louis Johnson, Isadore Gartrell, Carl Wolfe, and Roddy McDowell are ...
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- BOP Policy Denying Electric Musical Instruments Upheld; Religious Exception Enjoined
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