· 12/9/2005
Roosevelt Burrell v. Marvin Powers
Citations
- 431 F.3d 282
- 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 26902
- 2005 WL 3336517
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- discussing exhaustion requirements applicable to inmate grievances being brought in federal court
- “The record makes clear that [the prisoner] never appealed fully the denial of his grievances and, therefore, failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.”
- “[A] prisoner must file complaints and appeals in the place, and at the time, the prison’s administrative rules require.” (citation omitted)
- exhaustion requires the prisoner to “file complaints and appeals in the place, and at the time, the prison’s administrative rules require”
- “failure to take a timely administrative appeal within the state systems means that [an inmate] has failed to exhaust his state remedies for purposes of § 1997e(a)”
- “For a prisoner to exhaust his remedies within the meaning of § 1997e(a), he must ‘file complaints and appeals in the place, and at the time, the prison’s administrative rules require”’
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Ripple, Kanne, Wood
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