Case Name: Kevin G. ROBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T. STEWART, Sergeant; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-03
Citations: 368 F. App'x 830
Docket Number: No. 09-15603
Parties: Kevin G. ROBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T. STEWART, Sergeant; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 368
Pages: 830–831

Head Matter:
Kevin G. ROBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T. STEWART, Sergeant; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 09-15603.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 16, 2010.
Filed March 3, 2010.
Kevin G. Roby, Crescent City, CA, pro se.
Scott John Feudale, Esquire, Deputy Attorney General, AGCA-Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Kevin G. Roby, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court's dismissal for failure to exhaust, and for clear error its factual determinations, Wyatt v. Terhune, 315 F.3d 1108, 1117 (9th Cir.2003), and we vacate and remand.
Defendants have not met their burden of proving that Roby's action should be dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. They failed adequately to address Roby's sworn affidavit that a prison official told him that he need not pursue administrative appeals about being double-celled and attacked by his cellmate in 2005. See Marella v. Terhune, 568 F.3d 1024, 1026 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam) (holding that the district court erred in dismissing prisoner's complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies where the prisoner was informed that the appeals process was unavailable to him); Brown v. Valoff, 422 F.3d 926, 935 (9th Cir.2005) ("[A] prisoner need not press on to exhaust further levels of review once he has either received all 'available' remedies at an intermediate level of review or been reliably informed by an administrator that no remedies are available."); Wyatt, 315 F.3d at 1119 ("[Defendants have the burden of raising and proving the absence of exhaustion.").
VACATED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.