Case Name: Michael A. HOLMBERG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bernard WARNER, Secretary of the Department of Corrections; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-08-20
Citations: 584 F. App'x 619
Docket Number: No. 13-35720
Parties: Michael A. HOLMBERG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bernard WARNER, Secretary of the Department of Corrections; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, THOMAS, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 584
Pages: 619–620

Head Matter:
Michael A. HOLMBERG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bernard WARNER, Secretary of the Department of Corrections; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 13-35720.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 13, 2014.
Filed Aug. 20, 2014.
Michael A. Holmberg, Aberdeen, WA, pro se.
Haley Beach, Assistant Attorney General, Cassie B. Vanroojen, Attorney General’s Office, Olympia, WA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: SCHROEDER, THOMAS, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Washington state prisoner Michael A. Holmberg appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing for failure to exhaust administrative remedies his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging retaliation and access-to-court claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Sapp v. Kimbrell, 623 F.3d 813, 821 (9th Cir.2010), and we affirm.
The district court properly concluded that Holmberg's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies was not excused because Holmberg failed to establish that administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him. See id. at 823 (describing limited circumstances under which administrative remedies are deemed unavailable or exhaustion is excused, such as where prison officials screened out inmate's appeals for improper reasons); Nunez v. Duncan, 591 F.3d 1217, 1224, 1226 (9th Cir.2010) (plaintiff bears burden of proving that administrative remedies are unavailable, such as where prisoner took reasonable and appropriate steps to exhaust, but was precluded from exhausting by the warden's mistake).
Holmberg's pursuit of additional remedies allegedly available under Wash. Rev. Code § 72.01.060 does not constitute exhaustion of administrative remedies under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.