Ligon v. Doherty.

• Position: ACCESS TO COURT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

EXHAUSTION

PLRA -- Prison Litigation Reform Act

Ligon v. Doherty, 208 F.Supp.2d 384 (E.D.N.Y. 2002). A former county jail inmate brought a civil rights action against corrections officers who allegedly assaulted him. The district court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss, finding that the former inmate had not failed to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). The court held that the transfer...