United States Sixth Circuit

Where prisoners fully exhausted state remedies and claims prior to filing their amended complaint, and offered documentation clearly confirming that fact, they have satisfied the mandates of Section 1997e of the Prison Litigation Reform Act so that their civil rights claims survive.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2000
• Decided 04/30/2001
• Published 04/30/2001

Judges

• Before SILER and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  O'MALLEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Newman, Cincinnati, OH, Lisa T. Meeks (argued and briefed), Newman & Meeks, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian M. Zets (argued), Todd R. Marti (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, for Defendants-Appellees.