The following excerpt is from Williams v. Baker, Case No. 1:16-cv-01540-DAD-JDP (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Id. at 1859-60 (citations omitted); see also Andres v. Marshall, 867 F.3d 1076, 1079 (9th Cir. 2017) ("When prison officials improperly fail to process a prisoner's grievance, the prisoner is deemed to have exhausted available administrative remedies.").
If the court concludes that plaintiff has failed to exhaust available remedies, the proper
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