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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, SOUTHERN DIVISION

WILLIE EDD WILSON, )

)

 Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

 v. ) 1:15cv727-MHT

) (WO)

DOTHAN CITY JAIL, et al., )

)

 Defendants. )

OPINION

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff, an inmate

at the Dothan City Jail, filed this lawsuit challenging 

the alleged denial of his requests for medical care by 

jail staff. This cause is before the court on the 

recommendation of the United States Magistrate Judge 

that the plaintiff’s claims against defendant Dothan 

City Jail be dismissed from the complaint as frivolous. 

There are no objections to the recommendation; however,

following issuance of the recommendation, the plaintiff 

filed a motion to amend the complaint in which he 

omitted defendant Dothan City Jail from the caption of 

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the case, set forth allegations against several 

additional individual defendants, and did not set forth 

any allegations against the jail itself. After an 

independent and de novo review of the record, this 

court is of the opinion that the recommendation should 

be withdrawn as moot, the motion to amend should be 

construed, in part, as a notice of voluntary dismissal, 

and defendant Dothan City Jail should be dismissed as a 

defendant pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1) and (2).

An appropriate judgment will be entered.

DONE, this the 16th day of November, 2015.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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