Moore-Ali

dissenting:

I would affirm the district court.

MEMORANDUM **

Jumah Thomas Moore-Ali (“Ali”), a former pretrial detainee at Sacramento County Jail, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing 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 under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo the district court’s grant of summary judgment, Barnett v. Centoni, 31 F.3d 813, 815 (9th Cir.1994) (per curiam), and its dismissal for failure to exhaust, Wyatt v. Terhune, 315 F.3d 1108, 1117 (9th Cir.2003), and review for clear error its factual determinations, id. We vacate and remand.

Ali contends that Chief Deputy Harris’s declaration stating that the County had a three-step grievance process is in error, because the Inmate Handbook referenced by, and attached to, defendants’ motion to dismiss provides only two steps, which Ali completed. This calls into question whether defendants met their burden of proving non-exhaustion. See id. at 1112 . This argument was raised for the first time in Ali’s objections to the magistrate judge’s Findings and Recommendations. A district court has discretion, but is not…