Cortez 320358 v. Washington

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN NORTHERN DIVISION ______ BURTON CORTEZ, Plaintiff, Case No. 2:25-cv-25 v. Honorable Paul L. Maloney HEIDI WASHINGTON et al., Defendants. ____________________________/ OPINION This is a civil rights action brought by a state prisoner. The Court will grant Plaintiff leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act,

Pub. L. No. 104-134, 110

Stat. 1321 (1996) (PLRA), the Court is required to dismiss any prisoner action brought under federal law if the complaint is frivolous, malicious, fails to state a claim upon…