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THOMAS v. WOOLUM

No. 01-3227.

337 F.3d 720 (2003)

Douglas THOMAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shawn WOOLUM, Defendant, Richard KEPLER; Charlotte Starcher; Billie Waddell, Sr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed July 28, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alphonse A. Gerhardstein (argued and briefed), Jennifer L. Branch, Paul M. Laufman (briefed), Laufman & Gerhardstein, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Todd R. Marti (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MOORE and GILMAN, Circuit Judges; ROSEN, District Judge.

OPINION

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Congress's passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") was an attempt to curb rampant prison litigation in the federal courts, but its enactment did not erode the role of the federal courts as vindicators of federal rights. The PLRA explicitly requires an inmate seeking to challenge prison conditions in federal court to exhaust any available administrative remedies, but the statute's text does not condition access to...

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