Legal Opinion
Ernest Lee Vaden v. K. Summerhill R.L. Gower St. Andre Chapman W.A. Duncan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 6, 2006No. 05-15650PublishedCited by 220 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFTON, Circuit Judge.
Prisoners frequently file lawsuits in federal court regarding prison conditions. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLRA”), in 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), requires that a prisoner exhaust available administrative remedies before bringing these actions. In this case, a California state prisoner sent a complaint to the district court before he had exhausted his administrative remedies within the state prison system. He did, however, exhaust those remedies by the time the district court granted him permission to file his complaint in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. §…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Brown v. ValoffCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
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3Cited by220 opinions
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- O'NEAL v. PriceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2008
- Nunez v. DuncanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2010
- Joseph Brown v. SageCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2019
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