United States Seventh Circuit

A federal prisoner must satisfy the exhaustion requirement of the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act when the prisoner claims that prison guards beat him.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2001
• Decided 06/28/2001
• Published 06/28/2001

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerold S. Solovy,Sunil R. Harjani (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew A. Jacober, Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Belleville, Il, for Defendants-Appellees Marvin King, Steven D. Hoffmeier and Robert Zachary., Matthew A. Jacober, Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Michael J. Nester, Donovan, Rose, Nester & Szewczyk, Belleville, IL, for Defendants-Appellees James P. Nickerson and Herman S. Nelson., Peter R. Maier (argued), Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Sec., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Graciano Arroyo and James A. Phillips.