United States Second Circuit

Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a plaintiff need not exhaust administrative remedies before asserting a cause of action in federal court that alleges wrongful retalation by prison officials because those allegations do not involve a "prison condition".

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2001
• Published 05/16/2001

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before FEINBERG, KEARSE, and SACK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter A. Sullivan, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY, and Julio F. Giano, Comstock, NY, pro se, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin A. Hotvet, Assistant Solicitor General, State of New York, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.