Harris
Harris v. Spriet
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Dean Harris, an Oregon state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing without prejudice his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). We have jurisdiction *598 under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Wyatt v. Terhune, 315 F.3d 1108, 1117 (9th Cir.2003), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Harris’s claim that prison officials violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by transporting him by bus to a medical appointment, because Harris did not pursue his prison grievance to the highest level of administrative review. See Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 88 , 126 S.Ct. 2378 , 165 L.Ed.2d 368 (2006) (“[A] prisoner must complete the administrative review process in accordance with the applicable procedural rules ... as a precondition to bringing suit in federal court.”). Moreover, Harris’s grievance regarding Dr. Duncan’s treatment was insufficient to notify prison staff about the alleged unconstitutional transport. See Griffin v. Arpaio, 557 F.3d 1117, 1119 (9th Cir.2009) (proper exhaustion “means that a grievant must…