Balkema v. VanDyken

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ______ JAMESON B. BALKEMA, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:21-cv-393 v. Honorable Robert J. Jonker STACY L. VANDYKEN, Defendant. ____________________________/ OPINION This is a civil rights action brought by a jail inmate under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act,

Pub. L. No. 104-134, 110

Stat. 1321 (1996) (PLRA), the Court is required to dismiss any prisoner action brought under federal law if the complaint is frivolous, malicious, fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, or seeks monetary…