Legal Opinion
Spencer v. Rhodes
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided March 19, 1987No. 86-1258-CRTPublishedCited by 431 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LARKINS, Senior District Judge:
This Plaintiff filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 while incarcerated at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has requested, and has been granted, leave to proceed in forma pauperis. His original complaint was a morass of “legal” conclusions with virtually no factual support. This court, by Order filed January 9, 1987, instructed this Plaintiff that he must assert more than conclusions and must, consistent with Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, make a “short and plain” statement of facts that would support what he believed to…
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