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California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2005, page 35
California Tort Claim Dismissed For Failure to Fully Exhaust Administrative Remedies
Filed under:
Medical Misconduct,
Vision,
Civil Procedure,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Limitations,
Sovereign Immunity.
Location:
California.
by John E. Dannenberg
The California Court of Appeal held that a prisoner's tort claim must be dismissed without prejudice for failure to fully exhaust administrative remedies even though the response to his administrative appeal was allegedly overdue. Separately, …
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