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Ninth Circuit: Prisoner’s Disciplinary Appeal Exhausted Claim of Having to Work on Religious Holiday
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2018
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2018, page 28
Filed under:
Religious Discrimination,
Prison Labor,
Disciplinary Appeals,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
RLUIPA,
First Amendment, rights.
Location:
Arizona.
by Christopher Zoukis
On May 18, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s order dismissing a prisoner’s complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The Ninth Circuit held the prisoner’s claim, which alleged a violation of his right to religious liberty under the ...
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