United States Ninth Circuit

A prisoner's administrative remedies are exhausted once he has either received all available remedies at an intermediate level or review or been reliably informed by an administrator that no remedies are available.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2004
• Decided 09/06/2005
• Published 09/06/2005

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, THOMPSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Frances T. Grunder, Senior Assistant Attorney General, James E. Flynn, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and David A. Carrasco, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the defendant-appellant in Case No. 03-16502., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Frances T. Grunder, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sara Tuner, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Barbara N. Sutliffe, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants in Case No. 03-16552., Peter Brown, pro se, Vacaville, CA, plaintiff-appellee in Case No. 03-16502., Thomas L. Riordan, Thadd Blizzard, and Charles L. Post, Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Sproul, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee in Case No. 03-16552.