Whatley v. Warden, No. 13-15117 (11th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff appealed the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit, alleging claims related to a beating by prison staff, for which he was denied medical treatment. The district court dismissed the suit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The court reversed the district court's judgment because the district court failed to follow the two-step process the court has created for deciding exhaustion challenges, and because in concluding that one of plaintiff's grievances did not exhaust, the district court enforced a procedural bar that the prison may have waived.
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