Legal Opinion
Bingham v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 2011No. 09-10349PublishedCited by 938 opinions
1Per curiam
Randall Bingham, a Georgia state prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s sua sponte dismissal, under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action. On appeal, Bingham argues that the district court erred in dismissing the following claims: (1) that the defendants, 13 Georgia Department of Corrections officials at Autry State Prison in Pelham, Georgia, deliberately ignored his requests for dental treatment and left him in serious pain constituting cruel and unusual punishment; (2) that the prison nurse, Laquetia Fowler, denied him…
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