DeLaurence Robinson v. Dale Scrogum

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

DeLaurence Robinson, an inmate in Illinois, alleged in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that five guards at Pontiac Correctional Center beat him in 2011 as punishment for filing grievances. The district court initially permitted Robinson to proceed on claims of retaliation and excessive force, but later dismissed the case, reasoning that Edwards v. Balisok, 520 U.S. 641, 117 S.Ct. 1584, 137 L.Ed.2d 906 (1997), bars the suit because some of Robinson’s allegations about the altercation conflicted with his disciplinary conviction for assaulting the guards. Because we…