United States Sixth Circuit

As long as an inmate presents a grievance to prison officials and appeals through available procedure, the inmate has exhausted administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and a prison's decision not to address the grievance as untimely under prison rules shall not bar federal suit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/06/2002
• Decided 07/28/2003
• Published 07/28/2003

Judges

• Before: MOORE and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  ROSEN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alphonse A. Gerhardstein (argued and briefed), Jennifer L. Branch, Paul M. Laufman (briefed), Laufman & Gerhardstein, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


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