Charles Oren ANDERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ron ANGELONE; Frankie Sue Del Papa; Bob Miller; Does 1-100, Defendants-Appellees

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Charles Anderson, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenge to prison rules preventing him from acting as the minister of his own church at the prison. Because Anderson is proceeding in forma pauperis and his case fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted, we dismiss the appeal pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) (see Part II infra).

The facts are adequately set out in our prior opinion in this case, see Anderson v.…