Ross v. County of Bernalillo

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• holding that failure to exhaust remedies regarding one claim does not warrant dismissal of entire action
• holding that there is no obligation to pursue the administrative process if nothing in the record suggests further relief was possible
• finding that use of an informal process to procure a shower mat constituted exhaustion permitting an inmate to pursue a lawsuit for money damages
• noting that the statute prohibits the filing of “actions,” as opposed to preventing the filing of a “claim.”
• “Nothing in the language or policy of the PLRA excuses prisoners in privately operated institutions from exhausting available administrative reme- dies.”
• finding after plaintiff’s success in the first stage of the process, he was not obligated to proceed to the second stage, “and nothing in the record suggest[e]d that there was any further relief whatsoever available”

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