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Tenth Circuit: Procedural Defense to Federal Prisoner’s ETS Suit Fails on Inadequate Grievance Record-Keeping
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2008
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2008, page 46
Filed under:
Cornell Corrections,
Smoking,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Defenses.
Location:
New Mexico.
Tenth Circuit: Procedural Defense to Federal Prisoner’s ETS Suit Fails on Inadequate Grievance Record-Keeping
by John E. Dannenberg
The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment order in a federal prisoner’s pro se Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) suit against private prison contractor Cornell Corrections, Inc., because Cornell’s ...
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