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Dorsey v. Seal

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Sep 20, 2007
CIVIL ACTION, NO. 05-1896, SECTION "C" (4) (E.D. La. Sep. 20, 2007)

Opinion

CIVIL ACTION, NO. 05-1896, SECTION "C" (4).

September 20, 2007


ORDER


The Court, having considered the complaint, the record, the applicable law, the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge, and the failure of any party to file an objection to the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation, hereby approves the Report and Recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge and adopts it as its opinion in this matter. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED that the plaintiff Michael A. Dorsey's complaint pursuant to Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the defendants, Lieutenant Ronnie Seal, Sergeant Charles Graham, Sergeant Charlie Morris, Sergeant Samuel Tynes, Lieutenant Rory Beall, Social Worker Vanessa Tyson, Social Worker Allen Bourgeois, Social Worker Elizabeth Oliveira, Social Worker Larry Wagoner, Sergeant Bruce Steward, EMT, Lieutenant Wayne Seal, Assistant Warden Kathyleen McGinnis, Deputy Warden Robert Tanner, Warden James Miller, Jr., Deputy Secretary Linda Ramsay, and Secretary Richard Stalder, is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE as frivolous, for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted, and/or as malicious pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e) and § 1915A and Title 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, because the claims therein are prescribed and are duplicitous of claims previously resolved in another federal civil rights litigation.


Summaries of

Dorsey v. Seal

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Sep 20, 2007
CIVIL ACTION, NO. 05-1896, SECTION "C" (4) (E.D. La. Sep. 20, 2007)
Case details for

Dorsey v. Seal

Case Details

Full title:MICHAEL A. DORSEY v. RONNIE SEAL, CHARLES GRAHAM, CHARLIE MORRIS, SAMUEL…

Court:United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana

Date published: Sep 20, 2007

Citations

CIVIL ACTION, NO. 05-1896, SECTION "C" (4) (E.D. La. Sep. 20, 2007)

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