Grant v. Cuellar

Robert Grant, an inmate proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, appeals the district court’s dismissal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d) (1988), of his civil rights suit against several prison officials. We dismiss for want of prosecution.

Grant filed an excessive force claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) against several prison officials, alleging that they had violated his First and Eighth Amendment rights. He alleged that a prison official had struck him repeatedly with a metal bar and that two other officials had watched without intervening. Grant had objected to the condition of a meal tray he…