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2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 13 - Courts And Court Procedure
Article 17.5. Costs - Attorney Fees - Inmate Lawsuits
Section 13-17.5-104. Stay of state judicial proceedings.
Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 13-17.5-104 (2020)
If the court determines, during the course of a state civil action by an inmate against any public defendant, that a federal civil action or grievance procedure is pending that involves the inmate and any of the same issues raised in the state civil action, the court shall stay the state civil action until the federal civil action or the grievance procedure is completed and all rights of appeal have been exhausted.
Source: L. 95: Entire article added, p. 479, § 1, effective July 1.
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