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Sixth Circuit: Dismissal of Due Process and Equal Protection Claims Upheld; Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Issue Remanded
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2009, page 55
The Sixth Circuit of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s due process and equal protection claims, but reversed the dismissal of Eighth Amendment claims based on failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
Filed under:
Liberty Interests,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Restraints,
Sentencing,
Good Time.
Location:
Kentucky.
Before the Court was the appeal of Kentucky State Penitentiary prisoner Henry David Grinter, following …
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