Nunez v. Duncan

How courts have described this case

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• “Remedies 16 that rational inmates cannot be expected to use are not capable of accomplishing their purposes 17 and so are not available.”
• “Remedies 21 that rational inmates cannot be expected to use are not capable of accomplishing their purposes 22 and so are not available.”
• a Warden’s rejection based upon mistaken 6 reliance on a regulation “rendered [the prisoner’s] administrative remedies effectively unavailable”
• “We hold that Nunez’s failure to timely exhaust his administrative remedies is excused because he took reasonable and appropriate steps to exhaust his Fourth Amendment claim and was precluded from exhausting, not through his own fault....”

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