Mordi v. Zeigler

WOOD, Chief Judge.

In January 2012, proceeding pro se, Uche P. Mordi, a Nigerian national, filed a civil rights- action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against local and state officials for alleged violations associated with his 2009 arrest in *705southern Illinois. The district coürt screened Mordi’s civil rights complaint, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. It dismissed with prejudice all claims except for those against three of the officers; the surviving claims relied on the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, art. 36.1(b), Apr. 24, 1963, 21 U.S.T. 77, 596 U.N.T.S. 261 (“the Vienna Convention”).…