NUSSLE v. WILLETTE

Docket No. 99-0387.

224 F.3d 95 (2000)

Ronald NUSSLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILLETTE, Correction Officer, and Porter, Correction Officer, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 24, 2000


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman A. Pattis, Williams and Pattis, LLC, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Gregory T. D'Auria, Assistant Attorney General, State of Connecticut (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, and Robert B. Fiske, III, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: CALABRESI, PARKER, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


STRAUB, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Ronald Nussle appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alan H. Nevas, Judge), dismissing his complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Nussle's appeal presents an issue of first impression in this Circuit: whether the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), encompasses claims...

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