United States Court of Appeals
                           FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 00-2055
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Darrell Wayne Clifford,                   *
                                          *
              Appellant,                  *
                                          *
       v.                                 * Appeal from the United States
                                          * District Court for the
Robert D. Ecoffey, Superintendent,        * District of South Dakota.
United States Department of the           *
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pine *       [UNPUBLISHED]
Ridge Indian Agency, Pine Ridge,          *
South Dakota,                             *
                                          *
              Appellee.                   *
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                          Submitted: February 12, 2001
                              Filed: February 14, 2001
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Before BOWMAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      South Dakota inmate Darrell Clifford appeals from the district court’s1 28 U.S.C.
§ 1915e(2)(B)(i) pre-service dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. After careful
review of the record, we agree with the district court that Clifford’s complaint was


      1
       The HONORABLE RICHARD H. BATTEY, United States District Judge for
the District of South Dakota.
frivolous. See West v. Atkins, 

, 48 (1988). Accordingly, we affirm. See
8th Cir. R. 47B.

      A true copy.

            Attest:

                     CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.




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