Keitz v. Unnamed Sponsors of Cocaine Research Study

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GLEN E. CONRAD, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff, Michael James Keitz (Keitz or plaintiff), proceeding pro se, filed this amended complaint on November 14, 2011, bringing two claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and one state law technical battery claim. The defendant had filed the original pro se complaint on August 26, 2011. However, on September 1, 2011, after granting the plaintiffs contemporaneously filed motion to proceed informa pauperis, the court dismissed the original complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B), concluding that the plaintiff had failed to state a claim upon…