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Texas Prisoners Have Thirty Days to Sue Following Resolution of Grievance
Loaded on June 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2001, page 10
An appeals court in Texas has held that Texas prisoners have only 30 days to file a lawsuit after resolution of their administrative grievance. Failure to do so results in dismissal of the suit.
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Limitations,
Prisoner Property.
Location:
Texas.
Richard James Randle, a Texas state prisoner, filed a state court lawsuit against prison employee D. ...
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