Fifth Circuit· 10/23/1998

Whitley v. Hunt

Citations

158 F.3d 882
42 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 121
1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 27673
1998 WL 740134

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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

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Judges: Wiener, Barksdale, Demoss

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