United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants is reversed where special circumstances justified plaintiff prison inmate's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies and that those remedies are no longer available to him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2006
• Published 05/04/2006

Judges

• HALL, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, JACOBS and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Bogin (Karen Murtagh-Monks, Michael E. Cassidy, on the brief), Steven R. Banks& John Boston, The Legal Aid Society, New York, New York, of counsel, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York) New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.