Brewer v. Lewis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION JARELL J. BREWER, Plaintiff, v. CAUSE NO.: 3:23-CV-866-TLS-JEM LEWIS, et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Jarell J. Brewer, a prisoner without a lawyer, filed a Complaint. ECF No. 2. “A document filed pro se is to be liberally construed, and a pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.” Erickson v. Pardus,

551 U.S. 89, 94

(2007) (cleaned up). Nevertheless, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, the Court must review the merits of a prisoner…