Legal Opinion
Oatess v. Sobolevitch
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 19, 1990No. 90-3048PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the sua sponte Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) dismissal by the district court of a pro se civil rights complaint after the grant to the plaintiff of leave to proceed in forma pauperis, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a), but before service of the complaint upon the defendants. The appeal requires us to decide whether the district court properly dismissed the complaint under these circumstances. We conclude that it did not. We will therefore vacate the district court’s order and remand for further proceedings.
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Plaintiff, Dale Oatess, is an inmate at the…
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