Adams v. Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections

Not for Publication in West's Federal Reporter
Citation Limited Pursuant to 1st Cir. Loc. R. 32.3
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 03-1456
MARC RICHARD ADAMS,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
COMMISSIONER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ET AL.,
Defendants, Appellees.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
[Hon. Paul J. Barbadoro, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Torruella, Selya and Lipez,
Circuit Judges.
Marc Richard Adams on brief pro se.
Peter W. Heed, Attorney General and Nancy J. Smith, Senior
Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellees.
November 17, 2003
Per Curiam. Pro se inmate Marc Adams appeals the district
court's dismissal of his civil rights complaint for failure to
exhaust administrative remedies, as required by the Prisoner
Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"), 42 U.S.C § 1997e(a). We have
reviewed the record and the parties' submissions and conclude that,
contrary to appellant's contentions, the district court applied the
proper standards of law and correctly concluded that appellant had
failed to exhaust his PLRA remedies. To the extent appellant
argues that defendants waived or should have been estopped from
asserting the failure-to-exhaust defense, his arguments are legally
and factually unfounded.
Affirmed. See Loc. R. 27(c).
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