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Ninth Circuit: Federal Complaint Cannot be Submitted Before PLRA Exhaustion is Completed

by John E. Dannenberg

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a prisoner must have completed his available administrative exhaustion procedures before he can submit a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint to the federal courts. Where a state prisoner had filed a complaint with exhaustion pending, but finished ...

 

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