Legal Opinion
Robinson v. Love
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 1, 1994No. Civ. A. No. 94-3003PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.
The issue in this case is whether the Court may dismiss as frivolous, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d), a prisoner’s civil rights complaint in which the plaintiff pleads events which are highly unlikely to be true, but are at least theoretically within the realm of pos*536sibility. Plaintiff, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon (“S.C.I.H.”), has filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit against S.C.I.H. Superintendent William J. Love.1 Plaintiff alleges that his relatives, neighbors, and friends are being held hostage by…
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