Taylor v. Cockrell

PER CURIAM. *

Larry Ray Taylor, a Texas prisoner (# 888263), appeals from the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights complaint as frivolous and for failure to state a claim, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(i) and (ii). In his original complaint, Taylor asserted that he had argued with a fellow inmate, that he had told some of the defendants that the inmate had threatened him, that the defendants did nothing, and that the inmate subsequently attacked him. In response to an order from the magistrate judge, Taylor filed an amended complaint in which he…