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Tenth Circuit Reverses Lawsuit on Hygiene Versus Court Access for Second Time
Loaded on June 15, 2011
by Bob Williams
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2011, page 38
For the second time, the Tenth Circuit has reversed the dismissal of a pro se prisoner’s lawsuit alleging he was denied basic hygiene items when his available money was spent on court-related expenses.
Filed under:
Hygiene Supplies,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Immunity/Liability,
Qualified Immunity,
Sovereign Immunity.
Location:
Colorado.
Colorado state prisoner Michael Whitington filed a § 1983 complaint that accused the Colorado Department of Corrections …
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