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Florida Prisoners Not Required to File Rulemaking Petition to Satisfy PLRA Exhaustion Requirement
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2024
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2024, page 62
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Administrative Exhaustion,
RLUIPA,
Administrative Procedures Act (State),
Right to Grow a Beard.
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
On July 31, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected an argument by the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) that a state prisoner’s suit should be dismissed because he was required to file a Petition to Initiate Rulemaking before proceeding to court. ...
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