United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for failure to exhaust available administrative remedies is vacated and remanded where the prisoner's failure to comply with administrative procedural requirements may have been justified.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

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

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur S. Linker, Katten, Muchin, Zavis Rosenman, New York, NY (Elena Paraskevas-Thadani, 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.