United States Seventh Circuit

The appropriate standard of appellate review of "factual" frivolousness, under 28 U.S.C. section 1915A(b)(1), in an inmate's civil rights suit, is abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2002
• Published 09/13/2002

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Abraham Gladney, Jr., Michigan City, IN, plaintiff-appellant pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steve Carter, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for defendant-appellee.