Woodford v. Ngo | |
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Argued March 22, 2006 Decided June 22, 2006 | |
Full case name | Jeanne S. Woodford, et al., Petitioners v. Viet Mike Ngo |
Docket no. | 05-416 |
Citations | 548 U.S. 81 (more) 126 S. Ct. 2378; 165 L. Ed. 2d 368; 2006 U.S. LEXIS 4891; 19 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 332 |
Case history | |
Prior | Ngo v. Woodford, 403 F.3d 620 (9th Cir. 2005); cert. granted, 546 U.S. 1015 (2005). |
Subsequent | On remand, 539 F.3d 1108 (9th Cir. 2008). |
Holding | |
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) requirement that a prisoner exhaust any available administrative remedies before challenging prison conditions in federal court bars him from doing so not only when this first lawsuit has been lost, but also when he failed to timely brought it. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas |
Concurrence | Breyer |
Dissent | Stevens, joined by Souter, Ginsburg |
Laws applied | |
Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 |
Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case about the procedures determining when prison litigation may be commenced in federal court.[1] Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, ruled that prisoners must exhaust all state-court remedies in accordance with the rules thereof before filing claims in federal court. Justice Stephen Breyer filed a concurrence. Justice John Paul Stevens filed a dissent.
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