Case Name: Freddie Ray LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Chris SMITH, III; Bobby Hickman; City of Leesville; Sylvester Desmond; Willie Banks, Jr.; Harry James; Scott, Lieutenant; Kenneth Noble; John J. Bolger; T. Bolton; Robert Allen; David Griffith; Gary Cooper; Randy Pruitt, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-10-20
Citations: 111 F. App'x 305
Docket Number: No. 04-30120
Parties: Freddie Ray LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Chris SMITH, III; Bobby Hickman; City of Leesville; Sylvester Desmond; Willie Banks, Jr.; Harry James; Scott, Lieutenant; Kenneth Noble; John J. Bolger; T. Bolton; Robert Allen; David Griffith; Gary Cooper; Randy Pruitt, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 111
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
Freddie Ray LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Chris SMITH, III; Bobby Hickman; City of Leesville; Sylvester Desmond; Willie Banks, Jr.; Harry James; Scott, Lieutenant; Kenneth Noble; John J. Bolger; T. Bolton; Robert Allen; David Griffith; Gary Cooper; Randy Pruitt, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 04-30120.
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Decided Oct. 20, 2004.
. Freddie Ray Lewis, Robeline, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Simeon Christie Smith, The Smith Law Firm, Leesville, LA, Terry Thibodeaux, Frohn & Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before JOLLY, JONES, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
In 2003, Freddie Ray Lewis, a Louisiana resident and a former inmate at the Lees-ville (La.) City Jail ("Jail"), filed this pro se, in forma pauperis complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that he had been falsely imprisoned at the Jail in 1996 and 1997. The district court granted the defendants' motions to dismiss pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), concluding that Lewis's claims were barred by the res judicata doctrine as the result of the judgment in favor of most of the same defendants in Lewis's prior civil rights action, Lewis v. Smith, No. 97-CV-1420 (W.D.La. Sept. 11, 2000), and that the claims were barred by the applicable one-year Louisiana limitations statute for personal injury actions.
All of Lewis's claims involving conditions of confinement are indeed barred by the res judicata doctrine, because the judgment in Lewis's prior civil rights action involved the same cause of action. See Schmueser v. Burkburnett Bank, 937 F.2d 1025, 1031 (5th Cir.1991); Nagle v. Lee, 807 F.2d 435, 439 (5th Cir.1987). Lewis's claims, which accrued at the latest by 1997, were also barred by the one-year limitations provision applicable to Louisiana personal injury actions. See Owens v. Okure, 488 U.S. 235, 250, 109 S.Ct. 573, 102 L.Ed.2d 594 (1989); Jacobsen v. Osborne, 133 F.3d 315, 319 (5th Cir.1998). Finally, Lewis's false imprisonment claims are barred by the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87, 114 S.Ct. 2364,129 L.Ed.2d 383 (1994). See Randell v. Johnson, 227 F.3d 300, 301 (5th Cir.2000) (Heck doctrine applies to former prisoners). The district court did not err in granting the motions to dismiss. See Vulcan Materials Co. v. City of Tehuacana, 238 F.3d 382, 387 (5th Cir.2001).
Lewis's appeal is without arguable merit, see Howard v. King, 707 F.2d 215, 220 (5th Cir.1983), and it is DISMISSED as frivolous. 5th Cir. R. 42.2. Lewis is warned that any future frivolous filings will subject him to sanctions.
Lewis's motion urging this court to waive "corrections and additions" to his brief and to waive the record-excerpts requirement is DENIED as unnecessary.
APPEAL DISMISSED AS FRIVOLOUS; MOTION DENIED; SANCTION WARNING ISSUED.
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.