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Michigan PLRA Requires Dismissal for Failure to Make Initial disclosure Statements; Prisons not a Public Service

Loaded on Aug. 5, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, PLRA, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Frivolous Litigation (PLRA), Juvenile Prisons. Location: Michigan.

A Michigan Court of Appeals held the state’s Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires dismissal of a lawsuit when a prisoner-plaintiff fails to “disclose the number of civil actions and appeals that the prisoner has previously initiated.” It further held prisoners may not bring a claim under The Elliot Larsen ...

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