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· 10/9/1975

New Castle County v. Richeson

Citations

  • 347 A.2d 135
  • 1975 Del. LEXIS 514

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • observing that “once an administrative remedy is exhausted, a claimant need not do more” because “over-exhaustion is not required” (cleaned up)
  • finding grievance process effectively 11 unavailable to prisoner where prison did not respond to emergency grievance
  • summarizing circumstances in which administrative remedies are deemed 26 27 renumbered without substantive change and are now found at sections 3999.226 through 3999.237 1 unavailable
  • “delay in 22 responding to a grievance, particularly in at time sensitive one, may demonstrate that no 23 administrative process is in fact available. Id. (emphasis in original) (internal quotations omitted
  • claims against warden 8 were not exhausted where none of the plaintiff’s “administrative filings named the warden, nor 9 did they describe the warden taking, or failing to take, actions that deprived [plaintiff] of any 10 federally guaranteed right.”
  • identifying specific circumstances where administrative remedies are unavailable

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Judges: Brown, McNeilly, Quillen

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