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New York Jail’s Juvenile Education Suit Returns to District Court
Loaded on June 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2007, page 39
New York Jail's Juvenile Education Suit Returns to District Court
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Injunctions (PLRA),
Prisoner Privileges,
Education,
Defenses,
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Location:
New York.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a federal court may only grant relief in a civil rights action filed by a prisoner on federal law claims but not on state law issues. Before the appellate court, once ...
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