Legal Opinion

Burney v. Does

District Court, E.D. Wisconsin

Decided March 16, 2022No. 2:22-cv-00109Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN KENNETH BERNARD BURNEY, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 22-C-109 JANE AND JOHN DOES, Defendants. SCREENING ORDER Plaintiff Kenneth Bernard Burney,1 an inmate confined at the Green Bay Correctional Institution, filed a pro se complaint alleging that the defendants violated federal law. This order resolves plaintiff’s motion for leave to proceed without prepaying the filing fee and screens his complaint. I. MOTION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED WITHOUT PREPAYING THE FILING FEE The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) applies to this case because the…

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  3. Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Miguel Perez v. James FenoglioCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2015
  5. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974

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