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Neal v. Goord

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Overruled in part
Court
Second Circuit
Citation
267 F.3d 116
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
115 of 115
Citing cases (total)
235
Treatment dates
2002
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Overruled in part: all 115 flagged citations have been read. Porter v. Nussle rejected Neal v. Goord's distinction between general prison conditions and particularized incidents for PLRA exhaustion.
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The citing opinions consistently report Porter's act while continuing to apply Neal's separate holding that exhaustion must occur before suit; none supplies an additional adverse treatment.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

235 later cases cite Neal v. Goord; 115 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court rejected Neal's rule that PLRA exhaustion did not reach particularized misconduct directed at one inmate, holding that exhaustion applies to every suit about prison life.

    Porter v. Nussle · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We reject both readings and hold, in line with the text and purpose of the PLRA, our precedent in point, and the weight of lower court authority, that § 1997e(a)’s exhaustion requirement applies to all prisoners seeking redress for prison circumstances or occurrences.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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