United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff-prisoner's complaint for failure to exhaust available administrative remedies is vacated and remanded where exhausted claims filed alongside unexhausted ones may proceed. However, the unexhausted claims must be dismissed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2004
• Published 08/19/2004

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  CALABRESI and SACK, Circuit Judges, and PAULEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Boston, The Legal Aid Society (Daniel L. Greenberg, Mary Lynne Werlwas, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York;  Caitlin J. Halligan, Solicitor General;  Michael S. Delohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General;  Martin Hotvet, Thomas B. Litsky, Sachin S. Pandya, Assistant Solicitors General, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellees.