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Ninth Circuit: Merits Decision Excuses Procedurally Flawed Exhaustion

by Mark Wilson

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a prisoner who fails to comply with prison grievance procedural requirements nevertheless exhausts administrative remedies if prison officials deny the grievances on the merits.

In January 2011, California prison physician Wesley Hashimoto recommended morphine and ...

 

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