The following excerpt is from Galik v. Nangalama, No. 2: 09-cv-0152 KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2011):
However, a prisoner need not exhaust further levels of review once he has either received all the remedies that are "available" at an intermediate level of review, or has been reliably informed by an administrator that no more remedies are available. Brown v. Valoff, 422 F.3d 926, 934-35 (9th Cir. 2005). Because there can be no absence of exhaustion unless some
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