Legal Opinion
Ronald M. Costlow and Bonnie F. Costlow v. Larry Weeks, Individually, and as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 9, 1986No. 85-4007PublishedCited by 348 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
Ronald M. Costlow and Bonnie F. Cost-low appeal from the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of their complaint for improper venue. We affirm.
FACTS
On April 24, 1985, the Costlows filed a civil rights complaint in the District Court for the Western District of Washington. In it, Ronald alleged that when he was an Alaskan state trooper in 1969 and 1970, numerous Alaskan officials and entities penalized, harassed, maliciously and falsely arrested, imprisoned, and convicted him of crimes he had not committed, all because he refused to follow the state police’s allegedly…
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