Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-01-08 17:00:29+00
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FILED
                                                       United States Court of Appeals
                                                               Tenth Circuit

                                                             January 8, 2013
                   UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALSElisabeth A. Shumaker
                                                               Clerk of Court
                                   TENTH CIRCUIT

MIKEAL GLENN STINE,
            Plaintiff–Appellant,                     No. 12-1319
      v.                                     (D.C. No. 1:12-CV-01504-WJM)
UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU                         (D. Colorado)
OF PRISONS; DR. CHRISTOPHER
WILSON, ADX; MR. MUNSON,
Associate Warden, ADX; DAVID
ALLRED, Clinical Director, ADX; MR.
ROGERS, EMT, ADX; BLAKE DAVIS,
Warden, ADX; LEWIS T. BABCOCK,
Judge; WILEY Y. DANIEL, Judge;
KRISTEN L. MIX, Magistrate Judge;
CRAIG B. SHAFFER, Magistrate Judge;
BOYD N. BOLAND, Magistrate Judge;
ZITA L. WEINSHIENK, Judge; PHILLIP
A. BRIMMER, Judge; MS. AMY L.
PADDEN, Attorney, AUSA; MR. J.
BENEDICT GARCIA, Attorney, AUSA;
JOHN DOES; MARCIA S. KRIEGER,
Judge; RICHARD P. MATSCH, Judge;
JOHN L. KANE, Judge; WALKER D.
MILLER, Judge; CHRISTINE M.
ARGUELLO, Judge; MICHAEL J.
WATANABE, Magistrate Judge;
MICHAEL J. HEGARTY, Magistrate
Judge; KATHLEEN M. TAFOYA,
Magistrate Judge; DAVID L. WEST,
Magistrate Judge; GUDRUN J. RICE,
Magistrate Judge; A. OSAGIE, Physician
Asst., ADX; MR. SHOCKY, Correctional
Officer, ADX,
            Defendants–Appellees.
                               ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, McKAY and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

       After examining the briefs and the appellate record, this panel has determined

unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist in the determination of this

appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). This case is therefore ordered

submitted without oral argument.

       Plaintiff Mikeal Stine, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals the district

court’s denial of his petition for leave to file a pro se complaint. In his proposed

complaint, Plaintiff alleged, among other things, that he has been denied medical

treatment for an eye disease and for a skin infection, and that he has not received surgery

or the proper medication for a life-threatening acid reflux condition. Plaintiff has an

extensive history of filing frivolous and malicious actions in federal courts. For this

reason, the district court in a previous case imposed prospective filing restrictions on any

of his future pro se complaints. Stine v. Lappin, No. 07-CV-01839, 2009 WL 2848849, at

*5, 20-22 (D. Colo. Sept. 1, 2009). In the present case, the district court denied Plaintiff

leave to file his proposed complaint, concluding that Plaintiff had failed to comply with

       *
         This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of
law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its
persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.

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the strict filing restrictions imposed by the court and that at least two of his claims were

either frivolous or malicious or both. Plaintiff appeals this decision raising three

arguments: First, Plaintiff concludes, without further discussion, that he has met the

filing restrictions that have been imposed upon him. Second, Plaintiff appears to

challenge the validity of the filing restrictions, arguing they must contain an emergency

exception for claims such as the ones raised in his proposed complaint. Finally, Plaintiff

argues the District of Colorado district court and magistrate judges are biased and

prejudiced against him and are deliberately “bouncing the ball back and forth to prevent

the case from going forwards” because they are aware of “a substantial amount of

evidence [that] is now available” to support Plaintiff’s claims. (Appellant’s Opening Br.

at 3A (capitalization omitted).) As a result, Plaintiff requests a change of venue.

       Having thoroughly reviewed Plaintiff’s briefing and the record on appeal, we find

no abuse of discretion in the district court’s conclusion that Plaintiff failed to comply “in

all particulars,” Lappin, 2009 WL 2848849 at *21, with the strict filing restrictions

imposed upon him. See Jackson v. Enforcer of Constitutional Policy, 412 F. App’x 181,

183-84 (10th Cir. 2011) (“[W]e discern no abuse of discretion in the district court’s

decision to impose the sanction of dismissal on [Plaintiff’s] instant pleading based on his

violation of that court’s . . . filing restrictions.”). We further find no evidence to support

Plaintiff’s contention that the district court and magistrate judges are biased or prejudiced

against him. To the contrary, as we have previously noted, “even in light of Mr. Stine’s

continual frivolous and harassing litigation that quite understandably has tested the

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patience of the federal courts, the district court has repeatedly and thoughtfully

considered his claims.” Stine v. U.S. Fed. Bureau of Prisons, 465 F. App’x 790, 799

(10th Cir. 2012). Finally, to the extent Plaintiff is challenging the terms or scope of the

filing restrictions, he cannot collaterally attack those restrictions in this proceeding—a

fact of which Plaintiff was previously made aware. See id.

       For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s denial of Plaintiff’s

petition. Plaintiff’s motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis on appeal is

GRANTED. Plaintiff is reminded of his continuing obligation to make partial payments

until the filing fee has been paid in full. All other pending motions are DENIED.

                                                   Entered for the Court

                                                   Monroe G. McKay
                                                   Circuit Judge

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