Legal Opinion
Forrest Zayne Brown, Stephen Michael Richmond, Christopher Michael Croft, and Tony Lynn Meadows v. Alan Bargery
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 27, 2000No. 98-6481PublishedCited by 896 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J., joined by Merritt, J.,
SILER, J. (pp. 868-69), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Forrest Zayne Brown, a Tennessee prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pau-peris, appeals a district court order dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights claim as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2). Because Brown’s complaint contains factual allegations and legal theories that conceivably implicate Eighth Amendment concerns, the district court erred when it dismissed the complaint as frivolous pursuant to § 1915(e)(2). Furthermore, we believe the error was not harmless because the…
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