WHITTINGTON v. LYNAUGH

No. 87-6061 Summary Calendar.

842 F.2d 818 (1988)

Fritz WHITTINGTON, Plaintiff, Daniel K. Johnson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James A. LYNAUGH, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel K. Johnson, pro se.

Gabriel G. Quintanilla, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, WILLIAMS and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is a classic case of a prison inmate making wholly unsupported allegations of a minor discrimination against him in his prison status, and then tying up the courts for three years, bedeviling the court with motion after motion still lacking in substance, ending in a pretrial hearing before the district court adjudging the case as frivolous and directing a sanction against the prisoner. The prisoner filed a timely appeal with this Court. We affirm...

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