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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 

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FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

Ucited States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

JUL 2 3 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

RAYMOND H. LADD, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

STEVEN J. DAVIES; RAY ROBERTS; ) 

COLLINS; FRITZ YOUNG; MIKE BELLAR; ) 

D. F. WHITE; R. MARTINEZ; CASTELLO;) 

STUPAR; MCMILLAN; ROBERT COLLINS; ) 

OGLETREE; SOSA; MARTIN, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 90-3326 

(D.C. No. 90-3279-S) 

(D. Kansas) 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

This matter is before the court on plaintiff Raymond H. 

Ladd's motion for leave to proceed on appeal without prepayment of 

costs or fees. 

Plaintiff sued the director of the Kansas Department of Corrections and various state prison officials under 42 u.s.c. 

§ 1983. Plaintiff is an inmate in a state prison. In his 

complaint he asserts that his cell was selected for shakedown 

based on improper racially discriminatory reasons, that following 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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• t the shakedown his cell was left in a disorderly condition, and 

that a bag of peanuts was confiscated from him without giving him 

a receipt. He seeks $70 billion in damages. 

Defendants admitted the shakedown but stated that it was 

related to the investigation of a break-in that morning at the 

prison's Chouteau store, that twenty-four cells were shaken down, 

only one of the inmates being black, one hispanic, and the remaining twenty-two white. Defendants admitted that plaintiff's cell 

was left in a disorderly condition and that a bag of peanuts was 

confiscated, apparently on the belief that it had come from 

inmates' kitchen against the rules; but defendants assert that the 

peanuts were returned to plaintiff. Plaintiff does not deny any 

of this response, but asserts as the basis of his racial claim 

that another white inmate who worked at the same prison job as 

plaintiff was not shaken down. 

We agree with the district court that plaintiff has not made 

any substantial argument on the law or facts that would support a 

cause of action under§ 1983. Therefore the motion for leave to 

proceed on appeal without prepayment of costs or fees is denied. 

The appeal is dismissed because no rational argument can be made 

in support of it. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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