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· 9/27/2010

Sapp v. Kimbrell

Citations

  • 623 F.3d 813
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 19937
  • 2010 WL 3733581

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that administrative remedies are effectively unavailable when prison officials fail to respond to a properly filed grievance
  • holding that “improper screening of an inmate’s administrative grievances renders administrative remedies ‘effectively unavailable’ such that exhaustion is not required”
  • holding that “[a]dministrative remedies were … ‘available’” when 10 plaintiff’s appeals were “screened for proper reasons,” and plaintiff “was required to exhaust 11 them”
  • holding that “improper screening of an inmate’s administrative grievances renders administrative remedies ‘effectively unavailable’ such that exhaustion is not required under the PLRA”
  • holding that “improper screening of an inmate’s administrative grievances renders administrative remedies ‘effectively unavailable’ such that exhaustion is not required under the PLRA”
  • holding that a prison’s improper screening of a grievance 18 renders administrative remedies effectively unavailable

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Judges: Fletcher, Paez, Korman

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