Risher v. Lappin

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• finding that an inmate exhausted his administrative remedies by sufficiently complying with the institution’s grievance process under the circumstances
• finding that an inmate exhausted his administrative remedies by sufficiently complying with the institution’s grievance process under the circumstances
• explaining that when an inmate does “not attempt to bypass the administrative grievance process” and instead “affirmatively endeavor[s] to comply with it,” a plaintiff has shown affirmative efforts
• holding the plaintiff exhausted all “available” administrative remedies because “[t]he Bureau’s failure to deliver the Regional Director’s response to [the plaintiff] … prevented him from submitting that response” with his appeal to the General Counsel
• declining to “impose requirements on Risher for exhaustion purposes that go beyond what was specifically required by the Bureau’s grievance procedure”
• declining to “impose requirements on Risher for exhaustion purposes that go beyond what was specifically required by the Bureau’s grievance procedure” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).