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Administrative Exhaustion Not Jurisdictional
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2001
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2001, page 26
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA), a federal court is not deprived of jurisdiction to hear a prisoner's civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if he has not first exhausted administrative remedies. In so doing, the Eighth ...
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Medical,
Skeletal Injury,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Magistrates.
Location:
Arkansas.
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