Legal Opinion
Clark Lee Smith v. Julian Boyd Laverta Barns Gloria Blocker Dav Kovac
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 25, 1991No. 90-2931PublishedCited by 188 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Clark Lee Smith appeals from the district court’s 1 order sua sponte dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims against defendants under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). We affirm.
Smith was a pretrial detainee at the St. Louis Municipal Jail. He filed a pro se complaint claiming that between December 1988 and May 1989, jail officials violated his civil rights by (1) tampering with his mail; (2) harassing him in retaliation for his complaints about jail conditions; (3) denying him meaningful access to the courts; and (4) denying him social services afforded other…
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