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· 5/3/1926

In re Claude

Citations

  • 12 F.2d 816
  • 56 App. D.C. 281
  • 1926 U.S. App. LEXIS 3380

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  • holding that 20 the right to petition applies to incarcerated individuals and includes the right to use 21 a prison grievance process, if such a process exists
  • holding that “prison officials may not punish an inmate merely for using ‘hostile, sexual, abusive or threatening’ language in a written 4 Appellees argue that the comment was not in response to the “griev- ance” (the 602 form
  • holding that the right to petition applies 3 to incarcerated individuals and includes the right to use a prison grievance process, if such a 4 process exists, overruled on other grounds by Shaw, 532 U.S. at 230 n.2.
  • finding prison rules overly burdened inmate’s right to express grievances and effectively deprived inmates of administrative review
  • overruled on other grounds by Shaw v. Murphy, 532 U.S. 223, 230 n. 2, 121 S.Ct. 1475, 149 L.Ed.2d 420 (2001)
  • “The right of 3 meaningful access to the courts extends to established prison grievance procedures.”

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Judges: Martin

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