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Administrative Remedies Deemed Unavailable Based on Physical Injury
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2004
by Bob Williams
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2004, page 39
Administrative Remedies Deemed Unavailable Based On Physical Injury
Filed under:
Medical,
Injury -- Misc.,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Complaints,
Premises Liability.
Location:
Texas.
By Bob Williams
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that administrative remedies are unavailable when a prisoner has a physical injury which prevents filing a grievance and a subsequently filed grievance is then rejected as untimely.
Frank Days slipped and ...
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