Legal Opinion

Priester v. Rich

District Court, S.D. Georgia

Decided April 3, 2006No. 605CV071Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

B. AVANT EDENFIELD, Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this Eighth Amendment, prisoner-beating case 1 brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, inmate/plaintiff Andrew Priester objects to the Magistrate Judge’s (MJ’s) Report and Recommendation (R&R) which advised this Court to dismiss without prej udice Priester’s case against prison officials because he failed, as required by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), to exhaust his prison’s administrative remedies. Under that statute, “[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under section 1983 of this title, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Anderson v. City of Bessemer CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Porter v. NussleSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  3. Booth v. ChurnerSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
  4. Robert Spruill v. Frank Gillis Goolier, C.O. McGlaughlin M.D. Brown, P.ACourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2004
  5. John D. Williamson, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross v. Gordon G. Tucker, Defendants-Appellees-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981

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