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Douglas Nyhuis v. Janet Reno, Attorney General Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General Kathleen Hawk, Director-Bop John Hahn, Warden

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Good law
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
204 F.3d 65
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
120 of 120
Citing cases (total)
571
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Douglas Nyhuis v. Janet Reno is good law in this review: all 120 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts applied its holdings that Prison Litigation Reform Act exhaustion is mandatory, permits no futility exception, and is nonjurisdictional.
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Other opinions cited Nyhuis only to report that the Act superseded portions of Young v. Quinlan and other earlier exhaustion law.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

571 later cases cite Douglas Nyhuis v. Janet Reno, Attorney General Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General Kathleen Hawk, Director-Bop John Hahn, Warden; 120 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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