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Tenth Circuit Rules Oklahoma Prisoner Exhausted Administrative Remedies
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 36
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the dismissal of an Oklahoma prisoner’s civil rights lawsuit against prison officials for refusing to provide him with a vegetarian diet consistent with his faith. In reversing the district court, the Court of Appeals held the prisoner had exhausted his …
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