Borges v. Piatkowski.

• Position: ACCESS TO COURT - Case regarding exhaustion of administrative remedies - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

EXHAUSTION

PLRA -- Prisoner Litigation Reform Act

Borges v. Piatkowski, 337 F.Supp.2d 424 (W.D.N.Y. 2004). A state prison inmate brought a [section] 1983 action against a prison dentist, alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. The district court denied the dentist's motion for summary judgment, finding that special circumstances justified any failure by the inmate to exhaust his administrative remedies. The court noted that the inmate did not know until after his transfer to a different facility, that the dentist might have known of the true nature of the...