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Nevada Supreme Court Clarifies Personal Injury Exhaustion Requirements
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2005, page 35
The Nevada Supreme Court held that state prisoners seeking compensation for personal injuries are not required to allege exhaustion of their administrative remedies, nor does the failure to exhaust administrative remedies deprive the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction.Thomas Cotton, Wilbur Lewis Jr., and Aries Mosby, prisoners at the …
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