Robert G. Rocky v. Ray Vittorie

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The district court in this case ordered that appellant’s civil rights suit be continued, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, to require appellant to exhaust his administrative remedies. When the prison certified that appellant had not timely exhausted his administrative remedies, the district court ordered that appellant’s case be dismissed with prejudice. We reverse.

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Appellant Robert Rocky, an inmate in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that various prison officers violated his civil rights. Rocky claims that the officers…