Goodman v. Wagner

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Pro se complaints must be liberally construed, Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520-21, 92 S.Ct. 594, 595, 30 L.Ed.2d 652 (1972), and a dismissal thereof is improper unless plaintiff has alleged “no set of facts” which could establish entitlement to relief. Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 45—46, 78 S.Ct. 99, 101, 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957). In making such a determination, courts undertake a “painstaking[ ]” effort to insure that plaintiff’s lack of familiarity with procedural and substantive law does not result in the forfeiture of a “potentially” valid…