United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for failure to exhaust available administrative remedies is vacated and remanded where the behavior of defendants rendered administrative remedies unavailable.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. Cassidy, Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Plattsburgh, NY (Tom Terrizzi, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin A. Hotvet, Assistant Solicitor General, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York, Albany, NY (Caitlin Halligan, Solicitor General;  Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General;  David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General;  Sachin Pandya, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., David B. Hamm, Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., New York, NY, for Individual Defendant-Appellee Michael DiPompo.