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Ninth Circuit: Total Exhaustion-Dismissal Rule Not Required Under PLRA
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2006, page 39
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Gang Policies,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Complaints.
Location:
California.
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a prisoners 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against prison officials should not be summarily dismissed under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) for containing both exhausted and unexhausted claims, but rather should be …
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