Lassiter v. City of Phila.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that physical incapacitation and delay resulting from the actions of prison staff as possible bases for good cause
• holding that, where a prisoner was unable to exhaust his administrative remedies because of something not within his control, the exhaustion defense was unavailable
• noting that it was defendants’ burden to prove their affirmative defense and to show that they were entitled to summary judgment on that basis
• stating that “evidence that the prisoner … was not diligent … would preclude a finding of exhaustion”
• On summary judgment, the magistrate’s cred- ibility and factual determinations regarding exhaustion of the grievance procedures were inappropriate.
• “[A] prisoner must comply with the specific procedures and deadlines established by the prison’s policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).