Perttu v. Richards
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 18, 2025 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 18, 2025
- Term
- October Term 2024
- Vote
- 5–4
- Majority author
- Justice Roberts
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 605 U. S. Part 2 Pages 460–494 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 18, 2025 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. Syllabus PERTTU v. RICHARDS certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit No. 23–1324 Argued February 25, 2025—Decided June 18, 2025 The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requires prisoners with com- plaints about prison conditions to exhaust available grievance proce- dures before fling suit in federal court. 42 U. S. C. § 1997e(a). But “exhaustion is not required” when a prison administrator “threaten[s] individual inmates so as to prevent their use of otherwise proper proce- dures.” Ross v. Blake, 578 U. S. 632, 644. “Such interference with an inmate's pursuit of relief renders the administrative process unavail- able,” so “§1997e(a) poses no bar” to suit. Ibid. The question pre- sented is whether a party has a right to a jury trial on PLRA exhaustion when that dispute is intertwined with the merits of the underlying suit. In this case, inmate Kyle Richards alleges that Thomas Perttu, a…
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