Patel v. Heidelberger

ORDER

In June 2000 Arvind Patel, an inmate at the Centraba Correctional Center, filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the lawyer who represented his ex-wife in their divorce. The district court dismissed Patel’s complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A for failing to state a claim under § 1983 and because the court lacked jurisdiction to hear his state-law complaints regarding his divorce proceedings and his ex-wife’s lawyer.

A statutory provision incorporated by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (“PLRA”) requires district judges to screen prisoner…