Booth v. Churner

Booth v. Churner
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 20, 2001 Decided May 29, 2001
Full case name	Timothy Booth, v. C.O. Churner, et al.
Citations	532 U.S. 731 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1819; 149 L. Ed. 2d 958
Case history
Prior	Complaint dismissed (M.D. Pa., 1997); affirmed, 206 F.3d 289 (3d Cir. 2000)
Holding
Prisoners who seek only monetary damages in suits over prison conditions still must exhaust all administrative remedies before going to court, even if monetary damages are not available under the particular administrative process.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Souter, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995

Booth v. Churner, 532 U.S. 731 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned the extent to which a state prisoner must first utilize an administrative review process provided by the state, prior to filing a case in federal district court. The Court held that Booth still had a mechanism of administrative review, and thus his claim was premature.