Alabama cannot raise failure to exhaust administrative remedies as a defense to a claim under 42 USC 1983 that seeks to challenge the state’s delays in processing their claims for unemployment benefits. To hold otherwise would place claimants in a catch-22 situation where they would have to wait to bring their claims in court until after the delayed administrative process finally ended at which point the claim of delay would be moot. States cannot immunize their state officials from 1983 actions by that means.