Higgins v. Van Buren County Courts Administration

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION ______ MELVIN SERGIO HIGGINS, Plaintiff, Case No. 1:19-cv-554 v. Honorable Paul L. Maloney VAN BUREN COUNTY COURTS ADMINISTRATION et al., Defendants. ____________________________/ OPINION This is a civil rights action brought by a pretrial detainee under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 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 which relief…