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Ninth Circuit: California Prisoner Need Not Appeal from Satisfactory Grievance Response in Order to Exhaust Administrative Remedies
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
by Michael Brodheim
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 26
Clarifying “the boundaries of proper exhaustion” within the context of California’s prison system, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner “has no obligation to appeal from a grant of relief, or a partial grant that satisfies him, in order to exhaust administrative remedies.”
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Disciplinary Appeals,
Prompt Hearings,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA).
Location:
California.
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