Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-08-22 20:00:28.521046+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       AUG 22 2018
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANTHONY BERNARD SMITH, Jr.,                     No.    17-16379

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 5:16-cv-00156-LHK

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
STEVE ALBRITTON, Associate Warden;
S. KLUGER, Correctional Lt.,

                Defendants-Appellees.

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

                           Submitted August 15, 2018**

Before:      FARRIS, BYBEE, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

      California state prisoner Anthony Bernard Smith, Jr., 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 daytime congregational prayer. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Williams v. Paramo,

      *
             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).
775 F.3d 1182, 1191 (9th Cir. 2015). We affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment because Smith failed

to properly exhaust his administrative remedies, and failed to raise a genuine

dispute of material fact as to 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, 1171-72 (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)). Contrary to Smith’s contention,

the 2013 group grievance was not duplicative of the issues raised in this case.

      AFFIRMED.

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