United States Ninth Circuit

In an inmate's suit against prison officials and others, claiming constitutional violations related to his classification into the general population, district court's grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment is affirmed where: 1) defendant's lack of awareness of the jail's grievance procedure does not make the administrative remedy "unavailable" for purposes of the Prison Litigation Reform Act; and 2) defendant has failed to meet his burden of showing that the jail's grievance procedure was unknowable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2012
• Published 09/21/2012

Judges

• Smith

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel