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PHIPPS v. KING

No. 87-5561.

866 F.2d 824 (1988)

Allen Raymond PHIPPS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Phylliss KING, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

December 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel G. Van Norman, pro bono, Pontiac, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. Hickman Ewing, Jr., U.S. Atty., Reba Robinson, Robert Williams, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.

Before MILBURN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and SUHRHEINRICH, District Judge.

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Allen Phipps, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Memphis, Tennessee ("FCI"), appeals from the district court's order denying his application to proceed in forma pauperis in this Bivens-type action. The sole issue before this court is whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Phipps' application.

Phipps filed this civil rights action on February 11, 1987, seeking monetary and...

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