Peoples v. Estate of Weaver

Erick T. Peoples, also known as E. Tyrone Collins, appeals pro se from a district court judgment that dismissed his civil rights action, filed under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. His appeal has been referred to a panel of this court pursuant to Rule 34(j)(l), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination, the panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed in this case. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a).

Peoples alleged: 1) that a judge in Saginaw County, Michigan, had allowed defendant Weaver to adopt him as a “slave child”; and 2) that he had been forced to serve as Weaver’s slave child from…