In Re Padraic Cook, Movant

Padraic Cook filed a lawsuit pro se seeking damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injuries he allegedly sustained when he fell climbing down from a Sheriff’s Department van to enter the St. Louis jail. Named as defendants are Sheriff L. Ray, who allegedly failed to help Cook exit the van, the Sheriff’s Department and the City of St. Louis, and Nurse Montgomery, who allegedly refused to treat Cook’s injuries inside the jail. The district court dismissed Cook’s complaint, prior to service, as frivolous within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d), as construed in Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319,…