PLRA / Administrative
The exhaustion requirements are met under the PLRA where prison officials issue a decision on the merits while disregarding procedural flaws in the appeal.
As the complaint put the prison officials on notice of the full dimensions of the claim, it sufficed to exhaust administrative remedies.
http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/01/12/13-17119.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.