Legal Opinion
Weiss v. Sawyer
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided September 19, 1997No. CIV-96-2034-RPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
DAVID L. RUSSELL, District Judge.
The individually named federal Defendants, K.J. Sawyer, Paul B. Nichols, Jr., Harold Wolaver, Bobby Gammel, Gary L. Collins, Brenda Faulkner and Wayne Watts, move the Court for an order dismissing the Plaintiffs complaint against them or, alternatively, for an order substituting the United States as the only proper federal defendant.
The Court construes the pro se Plaintiffs pleadings liberally, applying a less stringent standard than is applicable to pleadings filed by lawyers. Gagan v. Norton, 35 F.3d 1473, 1474 n. 1 (10th Cir.1994), cert. denied, 513…
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