Legal Opinion
Larson v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1998No. 97-41441PublishedCited by 282 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Paul Larson, a state prisoner, appeals the dismissal, for want of prosecution after failing to comply with a court order, of his pro se complaint. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
I
In a suit filed in October 1995, Larson asserted numerous claims, naming twenty-seven individual and institutional defendants. In March 1996, the district court granted Larson’s request to proceed in for-ma pauperis (“IFP”); In July 1997, citing Strickland v. Rankin County Correctional Facility, 105 F.3d 972 (5th Cir.1997), the magistrate judge sua sponte ordered Larson to file a…
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