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Michigan Grievances Exhausted Upon Fair Notice of Claim
Loaded on July 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2004, page 44
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it found that a Michigan prisoner failed to exhaust available administrative remedies and dismissed his § 1983 action on that basis. Michigan prisoner Ronnie Burton brought suit against two nurses and the Health Unit Manager, alleging inadequate ...
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