Legal Opinion
Hyland v. Stevens
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2002No. 01-2399PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pro se Michigan prisoner and frequent litigator John Vincent Hyland, Jr., appeals a district court judgment that dismissed his latest 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit as frivolous. The case has been referred to this panel pursuant to Rule 34(j)(l), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. We unanimously agree that oral argument is not needed. Fed. R.App. P. 34(a).
In a fee-paid complaint, Hyland sued the justices of the United States Supreme Court, claiming that the decision in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 121 S.Ct. 525, 148 L.Ed.2d 388 (2000) was improper under a number of legal theories. The district court dismissed…
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