Abdullah Alkhalidi v. Indiana Department of Correction

BARNES, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Abdullah Alkhalidi appeals the small claims court’s granting of a motion to dismiss filed by the Indiana Department of Correction (“DOC”). We reverse and remand.

Issues

[2] Alkhalidi raises two issues, which we restate as:

I. whether the small claims court had subject matter jurisdiction to decide his replevin claim; and

II. whether Alkhalidi was required to prove that he exhausted his administrative remedies.

Facts

[3] In 2012, Alkhalidi was incarcerated in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility (“Wabash”), and his personal property was seized in a “strip cell”…