Robert Lewis Eggie v. State of Florida

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• stating that “Congress enacted PREA with the purpose of implementing standards and policies to prevent prison rape and to protect the Eighth Amendment rights of Federal, State, and local prisoners.”
• finding the PREA grievance process to be “the relevant . . . administrative remedy”
• once prison officials “thwart inmates from taking advantage of a grievance process through machination, misrepresentation, or intimidation,” “exhaustion is not required”
• “A district court should grant summary judgment only if a defendant establishes that there is no genuine dispute of material fact that the plaintiff failed to exhaust.”
• “[W]hen prison officials decline to enforce their own procedural requirements and opt to consider otherwise-defaulted claims on the merits, so as a general rule will we.” (quoting Reed-Bey v. Pramstaller, 603 F.3d 322, 325 (6th Cir. 2010))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).