Menefield v. Foreman
Annotate this CasePlaintiff challenged the denial of his writ of mandate seeking to compel appeals coordinators at Pleasant Valley State Prison to complete the processing of an inmate appeal submitted by plaintiff. The court concluded that the appeals coordinators have a ministerial duty to complete the screening of inmate appeals, but exercise discretion when determining if an appeal is duplicative of an earlier appeal. In this case, the appeals at issue concerned access to the A-Facility chapel by Muslim inmates, but were different in other particulars. The court concluded that the appeals coordinators did not abuse their discretion when they determined that the August 2, 2012, appeal was duplicative of plaintiff's June 6, 2012, appeal because there was a significant overlap in the issues presented. Accordingly, the court affirmed the denial of the petition.
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