Filed: Nov. 21, 2001
Latest Update: Feb. 21, 2020
Summary: F I L E D United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 21 2001 TENTH CIRCUIT PATRICK FISHER Clerk GARY DALE HANDSHY, Plaintiff - Appellant, No. 01-3155 v. (D. Kansas) BILL GRAVES, Governor of the State (D.C. No. CV-00-3424-GTV) of Kansas; CARLA STOVALL, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Defendants - Appellees. ORDER AND JUDGMENT * Before HENRY , BRISCOE , and MURPHY , Circuit Judges. After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determi
Summary: F I L E D United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS NOV 21 2001 TENTH CIRCUIT PATRICK FISHER Clerk GARY DALE HANDSHY, Plaintiff - Appellant, No. 01-3155 v. (D. Kansas) BILL GRAVES, Governor of the State (D.C. No. CV-00-3424-GTV) of Kansas; CARLA STOVALL, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Defendants - Appellees. ORDER AND JUDGMENT * Before HENRY , BRISCOE , and MURPHY , Circuit Judges. After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determin..
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F I L E D
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
NOV 21 2001
TENTH CIRCUIT
PATRICK FISHER
Clerk
GARY DALE HANDSHY,
Plaintiff - Appellant, No. 01-3155
v. (D. Kansas)
BILL GRAVES, Governor of the State (D.C. No. CV-00-3424-GTV)
of Kansas; CARLA STOVALL,
Attorney General of the State of
Kansas,
Defendants - Appellees.
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
Before HENRY , BRISCOE , and MURPHY , Circuit Judges.
After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel has determined
unanimously that oral argument would not materially assist the determination of
this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is
therefore ordered submitted without oral argument.
This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the
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doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. The court
generally disfavors the citation of orders and judgments; nevertheless, an order
and judgment may be cited under the terms and conditions of 10th Cir. R. 36.3.
Gary Handshy, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis , appeals the
district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights complaint. Handshy
is a prisoner in the custody of the state of Kansas. In his complaint, he alleged
that computer chips were implanted in his body at the time of his birth and that
prison officials were “hacking into” these computer chips to obtain information
about him, control him, and “puppet master” him. Concluding that the allegations
were clearly delusional and frivolous, the district court dismissed the complaint
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B).
Handshy’s brief on appeal does not contain a single citation to authority or
any meaningful analysis of the propriety of the district court’s dismissal of the
complaint. Instead, Handshy’s appellate brief simply reasserts the same
delusional and frivolous allegations set out in his complaint. Upon de novo
review of the district court’s order of dismissal, Handshy’s appellate filings, and
the entire record on appeal, we conclude that this appeal is frivolous.
Accordingly, this court DISMISSES this appeal pursuant to § 1915(e)(2)(b)(i).
Despite our dismissal of this appeal, we remind Handshy that he remains
obligated to continue making partial payments pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)
until the appellate filing fee is paid in full. This court’s dismissal of Handshy’s
appeal as frivolous counts as a strike pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). The
district court’s dismissal of Handshy’s complaint on that same ground also counts
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as a strike pursuant to § 1915(g). Handshy is reminded that if he accrues three
strikes, he will no longer be able to proceed in forma pauperis in any civil action
filed in federal court unless he is in imminent danger of serious physical injury.
See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g).
ENTERED FOR THE COURT
Michael R. Murphy
Circuit Judge
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