GREEN v. McKASKLE

No. 84-2172.

788 F.2d 1116 (1986)

Isiah Carl GREEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dan V. McKASKLE, Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Dewey Cole, Jr., Mineola, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Isiah C. Green, pro se.

Donna Brorby, William Bennett Turner, San Francisco, Cal., and Joel Berger, N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for amicus-class of plaintiffs in Ruiz v. McCotter.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Adrian L. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., and Dennis Dimsey, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Bethesda, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, REAVLEY and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal comes from judgment in one of the thousands of prisoner civil rights cases on the district court dockets of this circuit. Most of these cases are lying dormant because of the hopelessness of applying the usual rules to incoherent and undecipherable pro se complaints, frequently false and frivolous. In other instances the court does give the case attention, but only by looking at the complaint, deciding its probable lack of merit...

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