David Brengettcy v. William Horton, John Daley, Officer Farrow, John Does I-X, and the County of Cook, Illinois

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• concluding that inmate who filed multiple unanswered grievances exhausted all available administrative remedies even though he did not pursue an appeal
• holding that defendants were not entitled to summary judgment based on failure to exhaust when the prisoner filed his lawsuit five months after he submitted his first grievance and had still received no response
• suggesting that district judge who “was not presented with ‘precisely the same question in precisely the same way’” could reconsider a ruling by her predecessor in the same case
• noting that exhaustion is affirmative defense that defendants have burden of pleading
• assessing whether “new material” presented on summary judgment provided a “compelling reason” for a second judge to revisit an earlier judge’s exhaus- tion ruling at the dismissal stage
• rejecting the argument that the prisoner failed to exhaust where the prison’s policy did not instruct the prisoner on what to do if the officials failed to respond to his grievance

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