Legal Opinion
O'GUINN v. Lovelock Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 5, 2007No. 06-15972PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IKUTA, Circuit Judge:
Roy Allen O’Guinn is a Nevada state prisoner who has sued prison officials claiming they denied him' accommodation and treatment for his mental illness. The district court dismissed the suit pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e et seq., for O’Guinn’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. O’Guinn appealed. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
To resolve this appeal, we must decide whether the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust available administrative remedies before bringing claims under the…
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