Booth v. Churner

Booth v. Churner
Argued March 20, 2001
Decided May 29, 2001
Full case nameTimothy Booth, v. C.O. Churner, et al.
Citations532 U.S. 731 (more)
121 S. Ct. 1819; 149 L. Ed. 2d 958
Case history
PriorComplaint 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
MajoritySouter, 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.