Case Name: Kenneth ROYAL, Appellant, v. YOUNG, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Taylor, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Chang Lee, Dr., East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC; Hartman, Dr., North Central Unit, ADC; Cherry Case, Manager, North Central Unit, ADC; Curddle, Nurse, North Central Unit, ADC, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-05-17
Citations: 97 F. App'x 66
Docket Number: No. 04-1081
Parties: Kenneth ROYAL, Appellant, v. YOUNG, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Taylor, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Chang Lee, Dr., East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC; Hartman, Dr., North Central Unit, ADC; Cherry Case, Manager, North Central Unit, ADC; Curddle, Nurse, North Central Unit, ADC, Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 97
Pages: 66–67

Head Matter:
Kenneth ROYAL, Appellant, v. YOUNG, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Taylor, Dr., Pine Bluff Work Complex, ADC; Chang Lee, Dr., East Arkansas Regional Unit, ADC; Hartman, Dr., North Central Unit, ADC; Cherry Case, Manager, North Central Unit, ADC; Curddle, Nurse, North Central Unit, ADC, Appellees.
No. 04-1081.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: May 7, 2004.
Decided: May 17, 2004.
Kenneth Royal, #110873, State Correctional Institution, Dallas, PA, pro se.
Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Former Arkansas inmate Kenneth Royal appeals the district court's preservice dismissal without prejudice of Royal's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies. The dismissal occurred after Royal moved for dismissal without prejudice and for transfer to a state court, a transfer the district court lacked authority to grant. Because there is no arguable basis for Royal's appeal, see Newhouse v. McCormick & Co., 130 F.3d 302, 305 (8th Cir.1997) (defining frivolousness), we dismiss this appeal as frivolous, and the dismissal counts as a "strike" for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).
The Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas.