Bennett v. James

How courts have described this case

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• observing that a plaintiff’s “perception” that filing a grievance would be “futile” is not sufficient to render the administrative remedies “unavailable”
• finding plaintiff failed to exhaust where “[h]e provides no information as to who . . . misinformed him – or where and when these alleged interactions took place.”
• describing grievance procedures in Westchester County Department of Corrections Inmate Rules and Regulations Handbook
• granting summary judgment on exhaustion grounds when plaintiff provided only “conclusory allegations”
• nonmoving pro se litigant “must produce specific facts to rebut the movant’s showing and to establish that there are material issues of fact requiring a trial” (internal quotations omitted); Lee v. Coughlin, 902 F. Supp. 424, 429 (S.D.N.Y. 1995

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).