Legal Opinion

Cynthia Yoder v. MacMain Law Group LLC

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided June 28, 2017No. 16-4180UnpublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION *

2Per curiam

Cynthia M. Yoder appeals pro se from an order of the District Court dismissing as legally frivolous her civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We will summarily affirm.

In 2013, Yoder and several of her family members filed a complaint against, inter alia, the East Coventry Township Police Department and two of its officers who had arrested her son. The Police Department and the officers were represented by David J. MacMain of the MacMain Law Group, LLC. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss and…

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