David Jones v. R. Roque

616 F. App'x 307

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: September 9, 2015
• Docket: 13-16967
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner David A. Jones appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing for failure to exhaust administrative remedies his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging sexual assault by prison guards. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Williams v. Paramo, 775 F.3d 1182, 1191 (9th Cir.2015). We affirm.

The district court properly concluded that Jones failed to exhaust his administrative remedies because Jones did not exhaust his grievance to the final level of review before filing this action and he did not demonstrate that administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him. See Sapp v. Kimbrell, 623 F.3d 813, 821-24 (9th Cir.2010) (explaining that “proper” exhaustion is mandatory and describing circumstances under which administrative remedies are deemed unavailable or exhaustion is excused).

We reject Jones’s contention that administrative remedies were exhausted when Jones fully exhausted a separate grievance after filing this lawsuit.

We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n. 2 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam).

AFFIRMED.

** This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.