Court Opinion

ID: 8429360
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-04 05:22:48.385729+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:35.044839
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*43SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court be and it hereby is AFFIRMED.
In early 2003, plaintiff-appellant Scott McBane, a prisoner at the Collins Correctional Facility in Collins, New York, was bitten by a mouse in his jail cell. He filed suit in July 2003 against Sheriff Edward Reilly of the Nassau County Correctional Facility, and alleged a variety of constitutional harms related to the mouse bite, for which he sought $5,000,000 in monetary damages pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In August 2003, the district court sua sponte dismissed McBane’s complaint, without prejudice, for failure to state a claim. The court also denied McBane’s numerous requests for appointed counsel. In January 2004, after McBane filed an essentially identical complaint as an amendment, the district court dismissed McBane’s complaint, with prejudice, for failure to state a claim. McBane now appeals.
We agree for substantially the reasons given by the district court that the plaintiff has not stated a cognizable claim. Under the circumstances, we cannot say that the district court’s decision not to appoint counsel was an abuse of discretion.
We have considered all of McBane’s arguments and find them to be without merit. The judgment of the district court is therefore AFFIRMED.