Published opinions from 2004. The case name opens the case page.
June 18, 2004372 F.3d 218
The court held that the PLRA requires proper exhaustion, measured by the prison’s grievance rules, but concluded that Spruill did not default his damages claim and that prison officials waived his failure to name Brown.
The court affirmed the District Court’s judgment upholding the denial of supplemental security income benefits. It concluded that substantial evidence supported the ALJ’s residual-functional-capacity finding and that the ALJ adequately explained the weight assigned to the medical opinions, including the treating…
April 5, 2004363 F.3d 229
The court held that Alston’s § 1983 complaint was subject to Rule 8(a)’s notice-pleading standard, not a heightened factual-specificity requirement, and that the District Court therefore erred in dismissing it.