No. 20-6071

Jerry Kent Dillingham v. Eva Scruggs, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-10-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies inmate-appeals prison-litigation-reform-act
Latest Conference: 2020-12-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a by signed receipt Form 2d properly filed /submitted to a grievance dep deposited in an (Inmate Appeals Office) designated Secure 2d Appeals Mail Box depository sight. Subsequently, Prison Officials fail/refuse to respond to that initial appeal within an agency's time constraint's procedural rules e does the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) have a BAKED intO its TEXT: an excEptiOn PLRA Will not require exhaustion waben under aforemention circumstances: iin render administrative existing remedies "effectively unavailable".

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a properly filed/submitted inmate grievance was effectively unavailable due to prison officials' failure to respond within procedural time constraints

Docket Entries

2020-12-14
Petition DENIED.
2020-11-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/11/2020.
2020-11-18
Waiver of right of respondent Eva Scruggs, et al. to respond filed.
2020-03-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 18, 2020)

Attorneys

Eva Scruggs, et al.
Neah HuynhOffice of the Attorney General State of California, Respondent
Jerry Kent Dillingham
Jerry Kent Dillingham — Petitioner