Legal Opinion
Leonard Thomas v. Keith Butts
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2014No. 12-2902PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Per curiam
Leonard Thomas, an Indiana prisoner, sued prison officials and medical personnel at the Pendleton Correctional Facility under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deliberate indifference to his epilepsy in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The district court dismissed without prejudice after Thomas did not pay the initial partial filing fee that the court assessed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1). We vacate the dismissal because the judge dismissed the suit without determining if Thomas was at fault for not paying.
At the start of litigation, Thomas moved to proceed in forma pauperis, attaching two documents…
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