Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-12-20 21:00:52.614765+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        DEC 20 2017
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ENVER KARAFILI,                                 No. 17-16038

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 5:15-cv-02121-LHK

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
JIMMY CRUZEN, Correctional Sergeant; et
al.,

                Defendants-Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Northern District of California
                     Lucy H. Koh, District Judge, Presiding

                          Submitted December 18, 2017**

Before:      WALLACE, SILVERMAN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges

      California state prisoner Enver Karafili appeals pro se from the district

court’s summary judgment for failure to exhaust administrative remedies in his 42

U.S.C. § 1983 action related to congregational prayer. We have jurisdiction under

28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Williams v. Paramo, 775 F.3d 1182, 1191

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
(9th Cir. 2015). We affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment because Karafili

failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether he properly

exhausted his administrative remedies, or whether there was “something in his

particular case that made the existing and generally available administrative

remedies effectively unavailable to him.” Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1172

(9th Cir. 2014) (en banc); see also Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 90 (2006)

(requiring proper exhaustion, which means “using all steps that the agency holds

out, and doing so properly (so that the agency addresses the issues on the merits)”

(emphasis, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)). Karafili contends that

he exhausted under a “continuing violation” theory, but even if this court were to

adopt such a theory, it would not apply in this case.

      AFFIRMED.

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