Whitley v. Hunt

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding ETS claim was wrongly dismissed as frivolous where prison doctor issued report noting that prisoner required nonsmoking quarters
• predicating waiver of exhaustion on the fact that plaintiff narrowed pleading to request only monetary damages
• affirming district court’s dismissal of inmate’s section 1983 complaint where inmate’s claim of racial discrimination lacked any factual support
• finding an inmate had no basis for relief on his claim that prison officials relied on an erroneous state court record to increase the inmate’s security classification
• affirming as frivolous a Privacy Act claim because “[t]he appellant] is essentially claiming that his sentence itself was incorrectly entered. That is an issue that should have been resolved on direct appeal from his criminal conviction.”
• not requiring exhaustion before filing Bivens action requesting monetary damages when exhaustion would be futile because no monetary administrative remedies were available

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).