Booth v. Churner, 532 U.S. 731, 3 (2001)

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Cite as: 532 U. S. 731 (2001)

Opinion of the Court

the brief were Acting Solicitor General Underwood, former Solicitor General Waxman, former Assistant Attorney General Ogden, Barbara L. Herwig, and Peter R. Maier.*

Justice Souter delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 amended 42 U. S. C. § 1997e(a), which now requires a prisoner to exhaust

*Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by David C. Fathi, Elizabeth Alexander, Margaret Winter, Daniel L. Greenberg, John Boston, and Alphonse A. Gerhardstein; for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Michael B. Mushlin and William J. Rold; and for the Brennan Center for Justice et al. by Robert J. Lukens, Richard P. Weishaupt, and Jonathan M. Stein.

A brief of amici curiae urging affirmance was filed for the State of Ohio et al. by Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General of Ohio, Stephen P. Carney, Associate Solicitor, and Todd R. Marti, Assistant Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective jurisdictions as follows: Bill Pryor of Alabama, Bruce M. Botelho of Alaska, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Bill Lockyer of California, Ken Salazar of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, M. Jane Brady of Delaware, Robert R. Rigsby of the District of Columbia, Robert A. Butterworth of Florida, Thurbert E. Baker of Georgia, John F. Tarantino of Guam, Earl I. Anzai of Hawaii, Alan Lance of Idaho, James E. Ryan of Illinois, Karen Freeman-Wilson of Indiana, Thomas J. Miller of Iowa, Carla J. Stovall of Kansas, Albert B. Chandler III of Kentucky, Richard P. Ieyoub of Louisiana, G. Steven Rowe of Maine, J. Joseph Curran, Jr., of Maryland, Thomas F. Reilly of Massachusetts, Jennifer M. Granholm of Michigan, Mike Hatch of Minnesota, Mike Moore of Mississippi, Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon of Missouri, Mike McGrath of Montana, Don Stenberg of Nebraska, Frankie Sue Del Papa of Nevada, Philip T. McLaughlin of New Hampshire, John J. Farmer, Jr., of New Jersey, Patricia A. Madrid of New Mexico, Eliot Spitzer of New York, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota, W. A. Drew Edmondson of Oklahoma, Hardy Myers of Oregon, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Charles M. Condon of South Carolina, Mark Barnett of South Dakota, Paul G. Summers of Tennessee, John Cornyn of Texas, Mark L. Shurtleff of Utah, William H. Sorrell of Vermont, Mark L. Earley of Virginia, Iver A. Stridiron of the Virgin Islands, Christine O. Gregoire of Washington, and Gay Woodhouse of Wyoming.

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