Legal Opinion
Messa v. Goord
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 26, 2011No. Docket 10-1019-prPublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Per curiam
In this appeal, we consider whether a plaintiff in a lawsuit governed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “PLRA”) is entitled to a jury trial on disputed factual issues relating to his exhaustion of administrative remedies. The district court held that he is not. We agree.
BACKGROUND
On March 25, 2001, plaintiff-appellant Rafael Messa, an inmate in the custody of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”) at Green Haven Correctional Facility, was injured during a prison yard altercation with defendants-appellees, a group of correctional officers (“defendants”).…
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