Legal Opinion
Bazrowx v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1998No. 97-50257PublishedCited by 362 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal from the district court’s sua sponte dismissal, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(c), for failure to state a claim on which pro se Plaintiff-Appellant Timothy D.V. Bazrowx, a Texas prison inmate, could recover in his civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, requires us to establish as a matter of first impression in this circuit the appropriate standard of review for such a dismissal and, applying such standard, to determine whether the district court committed reversible error. We conclude that such dismissals under § 1997e(c) should be reviewed de novo on appeal, and hold that the…
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