Missouri prisoner Percy J. Cooper filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint of more than thirty pages, which listed as defendants twenty-four Department of Corrections (DOC) employees and two Correctional Medical Services employees. The District Court granted Cooper provisional leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP); stated that Cooper's complaint did not conform with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)'s "short...
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