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Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Dooms 7th Circuit Prisoner Suit by Derek Gilna Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Dooms 7th Circuit Prisoner Suit   By Derek Gilna   The §1983 civil rights complaint filed by Wisconsin state prisoner, James R. Schultz, has been dismissed by the 7th Circuit Court of …
How Prisoners' Rights Lawyers are Preserving the Role of the Courts Margo Schlanger 2014 How Prisoners’ Rights Lawyers Are Preserving the Role of the Courts by Margo Schlanger DRAFT: August 11, 2014 This article canvasses prisoners’ lawyers strategies prompted by the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. The strategies not only …
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Judge May Resolve Exhaustion Issue; No Policy on Grievance Non-decisions Means Remedies Unavailable by David Reutter Judge May Resolve Exhaustion Issue; No Policy on Grievance Non-decisions Means Remedies Unavailable by David Reutter The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on August 26, 2013 that a judge may resolve factual disputes …
Trends in Prison Litigation and the PLRA Margo Schlanger U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 2014 Schlanger, Trends in Prisoner Litigation, DRAFT October 2, 2014, page 1 of 23 Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood by Margo Schlanger* Forthcoming, U.C. IRVINE L. REV. (2015) The Prison Litigation Reform Act …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
D.C. Circuit Holds PLRA’s Exhaustion Requirement Inapplicable to Former Prisoner by The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has held that the administrative exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply to suits filed by persons who are no longer incarcerated. The lawsuit …
Ninth Circuit Reinstates Disabled Prisoner's Deliberate Indifference Claim by On November 5, 2012, the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a disabled prisoner with limited English proficiency who alleged that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by failing to honor a doctor’s order to …
Prison Rape Elimination Act Standards Finally in Effect, but Will They be Effective? by Alex Friedmann "Sexual abuse is not an inevitable feature of incarceration. Leadership matters because corrections administrators can create a culture within facilities that promotes safety instead of one that tolerates abuse." – National Prison Rape Elimination …
Ninth Circuit Requires Notice to Pro Se Prisoner Litigants for Motions to Dismiss for Failure to Exhaust by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 19, 2012 that district courts must give pro se prisoners notice of their rights and duties when responding to a motion to dismiss …
Article • August 15, 2013
PLRA Administrative Exhaustion an Affirmative Defense by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (4th Circuit) has reversed a District Court dismissal of a prisoner civil rights action for not showing that available administrative remedies were exhausted before suit was filed. In 1999, Rodney Anderson began serving time …
Premature Appeal Not Frivolous Under PLRA by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s (PLRA’s) “three strikes” provision does not encompass a dismissal for filing a premature notice of appeal. New York prisoner Injah E. Tafari brought a civil rights action in September 2000, …
Article • August 15, 2013
Indiana Overcrowding Suit Certified as Class Action; Grievances Specific Enough to Satisfy PLRA by A federal court in Indiana certified a jail overcrowding case as a class action. It also found that Plaintiff adequately exhausted his claims. In January, 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana brought suit …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Sixth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Due to Non-Exhaustion and Statute of Limitations by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's summary judgment order that erroneously dismissed a Michigan prisoner's lawsuit for non-exhaustion and because it was time-barred. On November 30, 2005, Michigan state prisoner Samuel Surles …
Publication • 2013
Federal Administrative Grievance Guide ASL Version Washington Lawyers' Committee 2013 AN INMATE’S GUIDE TO ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDY REQUESTS AT FEDERAL PRISONS This Guide has been created by the D.C. Prisoners’ Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. It is not intended to replace the advice of …
Administrative Remedies “Unavailable” when Prisoner under Threat of Intimidation or Retaliation by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held “that when a prison official inhibits a prisoner from utilizing an administrative process through threats or intimidation, that process can no longer be said to be ‘available’” under the Prison …
Second Circuit: Continuing Violations Exhausted with Single Grievance by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 16, 2012 that a New York district court had incorrectly concluded that a prisoner failed to exhaust his administrative remedies before bringing a religious freedom suit. Muslim prisoner Neil Johnson was confined …
Article • April 15, 2013
Ninth Circuit: Improper Screening of Prisoner's Grievances May Excuse Failure to Exhaust Under PLRA by In a ruling with potentially significant consequences, the Ninth Circuit held on September 27, 2010 that a prison official's improper screening out of a prisoner's grievances may excuse the prisoner's failure to exhaust administrative remedies, …
Ninth Circuit: Dismissals Not Strikes Until Appeals Final; Interference With Court Access and Retaliation Claims Reversed by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's dismissal of a pro se prisoner's interference with court access and retaliation claims. The court also held that dismissals do not count as …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eighth Circuit: Procedurally Defaulted Grievances Decided on Merits are Considered Exhausted by On June 15, 2012, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s claims related to inadequate medical care. Missouri state prisoner Mark E. Hammett, while housed at the Jefferson County Correctional Center, …
Article • March 15, 2013
Dismissal of Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Legal Mail Claim Reversed by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to officials at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Smithfield (SCI) in a civil rights action claiming they engaged in a pattern or practice of opening a prisoner’s legal mail …
Forms of Judicial Deference in Prison Law by Sharon Dolovich by Sharon Dolovich1 Anyone familiar with the constitutional law of prisoners’ rights knows how ready courts are to find against prisoners in the name of “judicial deference.” It is not unreasonable for courts to grant a measure of deference to …
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