Woodford v. Ngo

Woodford v. Ngo
Supreme Court of the United States
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
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
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.