Legal Opinion
Sapp v. Kimbrell
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 27, 2010No. 05-15745PublishedCited by 437 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
In 2002, Ivan Terrance Sapp, a California state prisoner, filed a series of administrative grievances seeking medical care for an eye condition. He never exhausted these grievances, however, because a prison official screened them out for various reasons. Sapp ultimately filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which the district court dismissed because Sapp had not exhausted his administrative remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”).
In this appeal, we must decide whether a prison official’s improper screening of an inmate’s administrative appeals…
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