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Procedural Default In Exhausting State Administrative Remedies Held Not A Bar To Bringing § 1983 Act
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 22
Procedural Default In Exhausting State Administrative Remedies Held Not A Bar To Bringing § 1983 Action; Supreme Court Grants Review
Filed under:
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Denial of Religious Services,
Clergy.
Location:
California.
by John E. Dannenberg
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, deepening a split among the circuits, held that a California state prisoner's alleged untimeliness in filing his administrative grievance …
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