Wilder v. Sutton

ORDER

Enoch Wilder, a prisoner of Illinois and practitioner of Wicca, filed this lawsuit in November 2004 after almost two years of unanswered requests for access to specific religious items. Thirty more months then elapsed before the defendants finally moved for summary judgment on the ground that Wilder had turned to the courts without first exhausting his administrative remedies. Because the district court erred in accepting this contention, we vacate the judgment and remand for further proceedings.

The pertinent facts are mostly undisputed, and where they are we recount them in the light…