Legal Opinion
Florida v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 21, 2002No. 2001 CA 1145PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
| ¡(WHIPPLE, J.
Plaintiffs, Roosevelt Florida, Russell Blanchard and Donald Ray Evans, appeal from a judgment dismissing their petition for damages without prejudice following plaintiffs’ failure to amend their petition to reflect that they had first exhausted the administrative remedies provided for in the Corrections Administrative Remedy Procedure, LSA-R.S. 15:1171, et seq. For the following reasons, we reverse and remand.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On July 27, 1999, plaintiffs, formerly inmates incarcerated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (“the Department”),…
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