RECENT RULINGS

by the United States Supreme Court


Prisoner Litigation

  • Perttu v. Richards

    2024 Term of Court: The federal Prison Litigation Reform Act (“the PLRA”) requires the inmates of state prison or other confinement facilities to exhaust the administrative remedies their state offers to them for rectifying allegedly illegal conditions of their confinement before the inmate may file a federal court lawsuit against those conditions. 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a).… Continue reading