Legal Opinion
Leroy H. Johnson, Jr. v. Alex Rodriguez, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 9, 1991No. 91-1237PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Leroy Johnson, Jr. appeals the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of his complaint. Because we find the legal theories on which Johnson’s claims are based to be patently unmeritorious, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Based on the plaintiff’s complaint and ancillary documents docketed in the district court, it appears that Johnson, a black male, filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in January 1980. The charge was directed against Harvard University. It alleged that Johnson had applied for some fourteen…
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