United States Tenth Circuit

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) and 28 USC 1915(e)(2), sua sponte dismissal of a meritless complaint that cannot be salvaged by amendment comports with due process and does not infringe the right of access to the courts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2001
• Published 04/18/2001

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, EBEL and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: , George Michael Curley, pro se., Richard J. Banta and Lisa A. Vanderhoof, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General;  Norman C. Bay, United States Attorney;  Barbara L. Herwig, Attorney, Department of Justice;  and Jonathan H. Levy, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General, State of New Mexico and Patricia Gandert, Assistant Attorney General, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, for Defendants-Appellees.