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D.C. Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Federal Prisoner’s Complaint Due to PLRA Three-Strikes Rule
Loaded on April 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2025, page 60
Filed under:
Medication,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Pending Appeals.
Location:
District of Columbia.
In a ruling on October 18, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revived a case filed by federal prisoner Michael S. Owlfeather-Gorbey. A “prolific litigator” housed at the U.S. Penitentiary in Thompson, Illinois, he sued federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials in …
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