Luigi Aiello and Larry George v. Phil Kingston

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Two inmates of a Wisconsin prison contend that the Constitution entitles them to buy lottery tickets. The district court summarily dismissed the complaint as frivolous. We remanded in an unpublished order, holding that because Williams v. Manson, 499 F.Supp. 773 (D.Conn.1980), had held that the equal protection clause requires states to allow prisoners to buy and possess lottery tickets, the complaint was not so weak that it could be rebuffed under the standards of Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 109 S.Ct. 1827, 104 L.Ed.2d 338 (1989).

As our mandate directed, the…