Legal Opinion
Richard G. Lawler v. Ronald C. Marshall, Supt. Dunn, Captain McAlister Lieutenant Dunn, Officer Boehm, Officer Paul Adams
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1990No. 87-4022PublishedCited by 1,232 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Richard G. Lawler appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d).
Lawler is a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He alleges that defendants Marshall and Dunn, both of whom are senior corrections officers at the correctional facility, ignored the October 8, 1984 written complaints by Lawler and six other inmates concerning G. Raines, an inmate serving as a porter, as posing a threat to inmates. Lawler alleges that on October 13, 1984, defendants Michael Boehm and…
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