United States Court of Appeals
                          FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                  No. 02-3816
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Samuel E. Massa,                      *
                                      *
             Appellant,               *
                                      * Appeal from the United States
      v.                              * District Court for the Eastern
                                      * District of Missouri.
Joel B. Eisenstein; David M.          *
Morgan; James Willie Edwards;         * [UNPUBLISHED]
David Wiess; Sue Crowder; Gary        *
Davis; Kenneth Romines, Judge;        *
St. Louis County; Franklin County;    *
Lawrence Davis, Judge,                *
                                      *
             Appellees.               *
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                         Submitted: February 7, 2003
                             Filed: March 4, 2003
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Before McMILLIAN, MELLOY, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       After allowing Samuel Massa to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP), the district
court1 dismissed his complaint, prior to service, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B).
The court reasoned that the complaint was frivolous because of its similarity to

      1
       The Honorable E. Richard Webber, United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of Missouri.
Massa’s previous IFP complaint that had been dismissed as frivolous, see Waller v.
Groose, 

, 1008 (8th Cir. 1994) (per curiam); and that the claims, based
on events that occurred more than ten years earlier, were barred by the five-year
statute of limitations, see Chandler v. Presiding Judge, Callaway County, 

, 978-79 (8th Cir. 1988). Massa appeals. Having carefully reviewed the record,
we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47A(a).

      A true copy.

            Attest:

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




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