GREEN v. YOUNG

No. 04-7252.

454 F.3d 405 (2006)

George Samuel GREEN, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stanley K. YOUNG; Syed Z. Ahsan, Psychiatrist; David Jones, Psychologist; Kimberly Ann Bays, Mental Health Supervisor/WRSP, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Joseph McMullen, Third Year Law Student, University of Virginia School of Law, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Richard Carson Vorhis, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Neal L. Walters, Kimberly Mattingly, Third Year Law Students, University of Virginia School of Law, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Robert F. McDonnell, Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee Stanley K. Young; Rosalie P. Fessier, Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, P.C., Staunton, Virginia, for Appellees Syed Z. Ahsan, Psychiatrist, David Jones, Psychologist, and Kimberly Ann Bays, Mental Health Supervisor/WRSP.

Before NIEMEYER and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH R. GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


Motion granted by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge GOODWIN joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge.

In 1996, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act (the "PLRA" or the "Act"), Pub.L. No. 104-134, §§ 801-810, 110 Stat. 1321 (1995), to address concerns about the "ever-growing number of prison-condition lawsuits that were threatening to overwhelm the capacity of the federal judiciary...

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