--- title: "Garza v. Davis" citation: "596 F.3d 1198 (10th Cir. 2010)" authority_id: "AUTH-CA10-GARZA-596-F3D-1198" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_tenth_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_ca10" official_url: "https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/01018368252.pdf" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA10-GARZA-596-F3D-1198/" legal_review: "2026-08-25" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # Garza v. Davis ## Holdings used - BOP exhaustion is a prerequisite to § 2241 relief despite no express statutory clause; the futility exception is narrow and higher administrative review defeated the asserted local-bias theory. ## Material limitation Binding only in the Tenth Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. Official published opinion reviewed. The holding is limited to BOP placement review and the futility arguments actually rejected. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run. ## Official source and pinpoints 596 F.3d 1198 (10th Cir. 2010), 596 F.3d 1203–04: ## Linked claims - `CLM-CIR10-001` ## Used in - [Tenth Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/tenth-circuit.md)