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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 

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GLENN 

v. 

DUANE 

State 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT APR 141989 

ROBEHt L. H~CKER 

Clerk DOUGLAS GROSS, ) 

) 

Petitioner-Appellant, ) 

) 

) 

) 

SHILLINGER; ATTORNEY GENERAL, ) 

of Wyoming, ) 

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Respondents-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 87-2815 

(D.C. No. 86-0405) 

( D. Wyo. ) 

Before ANDERSON and TACHA, Circuit Judges, and ROGERS, District 

Judge.** 

**The Honorable Richard D. Rogers, United States District Judge 

for the District of Kansas, sitting by designation. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. 

submitted without oral argument. 

The cause is therefore ordered 

* 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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The district court dismissed the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2254 habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). 

Although pro se pleadings are to be construed liberally and held 

to a "less stringent standard than formal pleadings drafted by 

lawyers," Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520 (1972), a district 

court may dismiss under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d) a petition that has 

been filed in forma pauperis, if the court determines that "the 

plaintiff cannot make a rational argument on .the law or the facts 

in support of his claim." Yellen v. Cooper, 828 F.2d 1471, 1475 

(10th Cir. 1987)(quoting Van Sickle v. Holloway, 791 F.2d 1431, 

1434 (10th Cir. 1986)). 

The order of the United States District Court for the 

District of Wyoming entered on November 30, 1987, is AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

PER CURIAM 

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