Lemmons v. Tranbraw

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

This is a pro se civil action for money damages “ * * * authorized [b]y 42 U.S.C. [§] 1983. * * * ” The complaint alleges the Court’s jurisdiction under 28 *498U.S.C. § 1343, presumably subsection (3), and also seeks declaratory relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202.*

The gravamen of the plaintiff’s claim is that the defendant, claimed to be a “bondsman,” was guilty of “ * * * mere negligence * * * ” in refusing to “re-sign” the plaintiff’s bond for his release on a state criminal charge after the plaintiff had failed to appear in a state court ^n…