United States Eleventh Circuit

The requirement that a prisoner show physical injury for any "federal civil action" does not apply to suits unrelated to prison conditions, filed in state court under state law, and removed to federal court based on diversity; a prisoner's claim against tobacco companies was improperly dismissed as frivolous under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/19/2002
• Published 06/19/2002

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:, Before WILSON, RONEY and ALARCÓN , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul David Brown, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Archibald Thomas Reeves, IV, Edward S. Sledge, III, McDowell, Knight, Roedder & Sledge, L.L.C., Mobile, AL, William H. Brooks, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, James W. Davis, Galloway & Moss, LLC, Bruce F. Rogers, Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, LLP, Birmingham, AL, W. Randall Bassett, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, Peter Sean Fruin, Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Steven R. Selsberg, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.