No. 24-1170

LaQuan Stederick Johnson v. Elaine Terry, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2025-05-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: administrative-remedy bivens-remedy constitutional-rights federal-courts prison-officials special-factors
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does the existence of the BOP's Administrative Remedy Program foreclose a Bivens action where prison officials prevent the inmate from accessing that program, as the Eleventh Circuit held below, or does barring a prisoner from accessing that alternative remedy allow a prisoner to pursue a Bivens claim, as the Fourth Circuit held in Fields v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 109 F.4th 264 (4th Cir. 2024)?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the existence of the BOP's Administrative Remedy Program foreclose a Bivens action where prison officials prevent the inmate from accessing that program, or does barring a prisoner from accessing that alternative remedy allow a prisoner to pursue a Bivens claim?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-16
Waiver of Federal Respondents of right to respond submitted.
2025-06-16
Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondents to respond filed.
2025-05-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 16, 2025)

Attorneys

Federal Respondents
Moez Mansoor KabaHueston Hennigan LLP, Respondent
LaQuan Johnson
Amy Rebekah UpshawKing & Spalding LLP, Petitioner
Terry, Elaine, et al.
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent