Case Name: MEDI-EQUIP SALES & RENTALS/HEALTHCARE MEDICAL; Keith O. Irby, Individually and Sole Owner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tommy THOMPSON, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas-Dallas; Dr. Coleman, Chief Executive Officer; Barbara Harvey, Supervisor; Linda Parker, Supervisor; Rhonda Richardson, Program Compliance; Health Care Finance Administration (CMS)-Dallas; Dave McNally, Deputy Director-Baltimore; Susan McLaughlin, Supervisor-Dallas; Magda Flores, Assistant-Dallas (R); Jerry Sconce, Director-Dallas (R), Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-02-18
Citations: 87 F. App'x 397
Docket Number: No. 03-40858
Parties: MEDI-EQUIP SALES & RENTALS/HEALTHCARE MEDICAL; Keith O. Irby, Individually and Sole Owner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tommy THOMPSON, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas-Dallas; Dr. Coleman, Chief Executive Officer; Barbara Harvey, Supervisor; Linda Parker, Supervisor; Rhonda Richardson, Program Compliance; Health Care Finance Administration (CMS)—Dallas; Dave McNally, Deputy Director-Baltimore; Susan McLaughlin, Supervisor-Dallas; Magda Flores, Assistant-Dallas (R); Jerry Sconce, Director-Dallas (R), Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 87
Pages: 397–398

Head Matter:
MEDI-EQUIP SALES & RENTALS/HEALTHCARE MEDICAL; Keith O. Irby, Individually and Sole Owner, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tommy THOMPSON, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Blue Cross Blue Shield Texas-Dallas; Dr. Coleman, Chief Executive Officer; Barbara Harvey, Supervisor; Linda Parker, Supervisor; Rhonda Richardson, Program Compliance; Health Care Finance Administration (CMS)—Dallas; Dave McNally, Deputy Director-Baltimore; Susan McLaughlin, Supervisor-Dallas; Magda Flores, Assistant-Dallas (R); Jerry Sconce, Director-Dallas (R), Defendants-Appellees.
No. 03-40858.
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Feb. 18, 2004.
Keith O. Irby, pro se, Clute, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, EMILIO M. GARZA, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Keith O. Irby, a Texas resident, filed this pro se civil action on behalf of his company, Medi-Equip Sales & Rentals, against the captioned defendants, seeking to recover millions of dollars from the defendants for medical-equipment sales that he alleges were lost because the defendants fraudulently caused him to be prosecuted and convicted for mail fraud in 1989. The district court dismissed the action sua sponte pursuant to an August 23, 2002, sanction order in Irby's criminal case, No. 88-CR-308-ALL, which prevented him from filing in the district court for the Southern District of Texas any action that "relates to his criminal case."
The district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the instant lawsuit pursuant to the sanction order. See Gelabert v. Lynaugh, 894 F.2d 746, 747-48 (5th Cir.1990). Irby has alleged in this action that the allegedly fraudulent conviction directly caused the harm for which he seeks redress. The action is thus directly related to his criminal action.
Irby's "Answer to Request for Corporate Counsel," construed as a request on behalf of Medi-Equip to proceed without a licensed attorney, is DENIED as unnecessary.
The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.