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Sixth Circuit Now Permits § 1983 Complaint to Proceed Even if Prisoner Did Not Initially Plead Exhaustion Below
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 17
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Legality of Rules,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Legal Materials,
Defenses,
Complaints.
Location:
Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated its precedent which held that a prisoner had an affirmative burden to plead exhaustion of administrative remedies in a § 1983 complaint. Following the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling contra in Jones v. Bock, 127 S.Ct. 910 ...
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