Isiah Carl Green v. Dan v. McKaskle Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal comes from judgment in one of the thousands of prisoner civil rights cases on the district court dockets of this circuit. Most of these cases are lying dormant because of the hopelessness of applying the usual rules to incoherent and undecipherable pro se complaints, frequently false and frivolous. In other instances the court does give the case attention, but only by looking at the complaint, deciding its probable lack of merit, and dismissing on the ground of frivolousness or failure to state a claim.

Where the prisoner has not been required and allowed to…