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Louisiana's Administrative Remedy Procedure Unconstitutional
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 23
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Workplace Injury,
Civil Procedure,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Limitations.
Location:
Louisiana.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has declared that the Corrections Administrative Remedy Procedure (CARP), La.Rev.Stat. 15:1171-1179, when applied to tort claims, violates article V,16 of the Louisiana constitution.
Michael Wayne Pope, a Louisiana state prisoner, was severely injured on his prison job, requiring multiple surgeries and …
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