United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action against jail guards for permitting an attack on plaintiff, dismissal of the complaint is reversed where only those individuals who are prisoners (as defined by 42 U.S.C. section 1997e(h)) at the time they file suit must comply with the exhaustion requirements of 42 U.S.C. section 1997(a).

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/16/2009
• Decided 08/06/2009
• Published 08/06/2009

Judges

• WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, JEROME FARRIS and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeff Dominic Price, Santa Monica, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Collins, Tomas A. Guterres, Douglas Fee (argued), and Catherine Mason-Mathers, Law Offices of Collins, Collins, Muir & Stewart, LLP, South Pasadena, CA, for defendants-appellees.