Ernest Lee Vaden v. K. Summerhill R.L. Gower St. Andre Chapman W.A. Duncan

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• holding, “[t]he bottom line is that a prisoner must pursue the prison administrative process as the first and primary forum for redress of grievances.”
• reaffirming that court should not stay action while prisoner exhausts his 9 administrative remedies because exhaustion requirement is mandatory and must be completed 10 before a plaintiff commences his lawsuit
• stating prisoner 10 must pursue prison administrative process as first and primary forum for redress of grievances
• finding district court required to 13 dismiss suit when determined plaintiff did not exhaust administrative remedies prior to sending 14 complaint to court
• finding district court required to dismiss suit when determined plaintiff did not 7 exhaust administrative remedies prior to sending complaint to court
• confirming complaint formally filed when 11 || court authorizes commencement of suit without prepayment of fees under Section 1915

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