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Seventh Circuit Discusses Administrative Exhaustion
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2006, page 44
Filed under:
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Hepatitis,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Federal Tort Claims Act.
Location:
Illinois.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoners amended complaint was the functional equivalent of a new complaint, and that new claims that were administratively exhausted after the original complaint was filed satisfied the Prison Litigation Reform Acts (PLRA) exhaustion requirement.
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