Ahmed v. Dragovich

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• treating an untimely Rule 59(e) motion as a Rule 60(b) motion
• “[W]e are free to recharacterize the motion to amend to match the substance of the relief requested.”
• “But if the [district court’s] order was a final judgment, [the plaintiff] could not use Rule 15 to amend the complaint.”
• “Whatever the parameters of ‘substantial compliance’ [with a prison's grievance procedures], it does not encompass...the filing of a suit before administrative exhaustion, however late, has been completed.”
• “‘Congress could have written a statute making exhaustion a precondition to judgment, but it did not. The actual statute makes exhaustion a precondition to suit.’” (quoting Perez v. Wis. Dep’t of Corr., 182 F.3d 532, 534-35 (7th Cir.1999)) (emphasis in original)
• denial of motion to reopen reviewed for abuse of discretion

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