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Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006
by Bob Williams
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2006, page 40
Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints
Filed under:
Body Cavity Searches,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Limitations.
Location:
Illinois.
by Bob Williams
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the dismissal of a prisoners amended complaint, finding prior exhaustion putting the state on notice was sufficient to pass muster under the Prison Litigation Reform Act …
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