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Ninth Circuit Holds New Claims Need Only be Exhausted Prior to Filing Amended Complaint
Loaded on May 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2012, page 28
The Ninth Circuit has held that a § 1983 prisoner litigant who wants to raise new claims based on conduct that occurred after an initial complaint was filed may do so by exhausting available administrative remedies (relative to the new claims) prior to filing an amended complaint. In so doing, ...
Filed under:
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Complaints,
Administrative Exhaustion.
Location:
California.
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