United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants because of plaintiff's failure to exhaust administrative remedies in a suit alleging violation of the Eighth Amendment is reversed and remanded where there are disputed issues of fact about whether administrative remedies were "available" to defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2005
• Decided 08/16/2006
• Published 08/16/2006

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before ROVNER, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David W. Fuller (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David S. Baker, Peter Maharry (argued), Fisher, Patterson & Smith, Overland Park, KS, for Defendant-Appellee, E.A. Stepp., Frederick J. Hess (argued), Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Belleville, IL, for Defendant-Appellee, M. Laird., Carl Gallagher, McAnny, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, KS, for Defendant-Appellee, Captain Benson., A. Courtney Cox, Hart & Hart, Benton, IL, for Defendants-Appellees, Joseph Yonkman.