Legal Opinion
Ocasio v. Prison Health Services
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 17, 2009No. 2002 WDA 2008PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
POPOVICH, J.:
¶ 1 Gabriel G. Ocasio appeals from the October 27, 2008 order entered in the Court of Common Pleas, Somerset County, which denied his petition to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissed his complaint with prejudice as being frivolous. Upon review, we affirm.
¶ 2 On July 29, 2008, the trial court received from Ocasio a petition to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) and a civil complaint filed pro se against Prison Health Services. 1 Ocasio was an inmate at SCI-Somerset, and Prison Health was the medical services provider at SCI-Somerset contracted by the Department of…
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