Legal Opinion
Booth v. Churner
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 29, 2001No. 99-1964PublishedCited by 3,453 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 amended 42 U. S. C. § 1997e(a), which now requires a prisoner to exhaust “such administrative remedies as are available” before suing over prison conditions. The question is whether an inmate seeking only money damages must complete a prison administrative process that could provide some sort of relief on the eomplaint stated, but no money. We hold that he must.
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Petitioner, Timothy Booth, was an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, Pennsylvania, when he began this action under Rev. Stat. §1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983, in the United…
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