Legal Opinion
Jones v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 20, 1986No. Nos. 661, 554, Docket 85-2047, 85-2244PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
These two appeals have been consolidated by this court sua sponte pursuant to Fed.R.App.P. 3(b) for purposes of this opinion. In one of the appeals, Jones v. Smith, et al., we granted Jones leave to appeal in forma pauperis in three of sixteen separate actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge various aspects of the conditions of his prison confinement. All of the complaints had been dismissed by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. Jones’s three actions that we address here are brought respectively against defendant…
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