United States First Circuit

Although six prisoners failed to sign a notice of appeal based on dismissal of confinement conditions claims, appellate jurisdiction was proper once this technical error was corrected; remand necessary to determine whether prisoners exhausted their administrative remedies prior to suit, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2002
• Published 05/06/2002

Judges

• STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Toni G. Wolfman, with whom Megan H. Mack, William W. Fick, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel J. Berner, Counsel, with whom Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, was on brief for appellees.