Joseph C. Sun v. J. Owen Forrester, United States District Judge
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Appellant Joseph Sun (“Sun”) contests the dismissal of a mandamus action instituted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (the “district court”) against one of the judges of that court, Judge J. Owen Forrester. Sun, proceeding pro se and in forma pau-peris (IFP), has attempted to compel the public retraction of certain alleged derogatory comments made by Judge Forrester at Sun’s sentencing. Another district judge dismissed the action as frivolous pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d).
This court reviews a district court’s dismissal of an IFP complaint for abuse of…
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