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Fifth Circuit· 10/13/2020

Laddy Valentine v. Bryan Collier

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  • 978 F.3d 154

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  • holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s exhaustion requirements were not excused by the pandemic
  • concluding that any argument that the correctional department evinced deliberate indifference was “dispelled by the affirmative steps it took to contain the virus,” even though it “could have done more to protect vulnerable inmates”
  • “[E]xhaustion is not excused just because inmates cannot obtain the precise relief they seek.”
  • “The Eighth Amendment does not enact the CDC guidelines.”
  • requiring exhaustion if “some relief” is available

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