Finnegan v. Welker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION RUSSELL GRANT FINNEGAN, Plaintiff, v. CAUSE NO. 3:21-CV-823-JD-MGG MARY WELKER, et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Russell Grant Finnegan, a prisoner without a lawyer, filed a complaint. ECF 1. “A document filed pro se is to be liberally construed, and a pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.” Erickson v. Pardus,

551 U.S. 89, 94

(2007) (quotation marks and citations omitted). Nevertheless, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, the court…