WRIGHT v. HOLLINGSWORTH

No. 99-40063.

260 F.3d 357 (2001)

Mark Eric WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gayle HOLLINGSWORTH, Etc., et al., Defendants, Gayle Hollingsworth, Registered Nurse at Telford, Individually and in official capacity, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 24, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin M. Waggoner, Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Charles Kenneth Eldred, Sharon Felfe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JOLLY, JONES and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.


EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

This case returns to us for rehearing and renews the question whether the district court properly dismissed, for failure to exhaust prison grievance remedies, the appellant's § 1983 claim against a prison nurse.

In Booth v. Churner, 531 U.S. 956, 121 S.Ct. 1819, 149 L.Ed.2d 958 (2001), the Supreme Court held that Congress intended a prisoner to invoke "such administrative...

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