Vance v. Hedrick

How courts have described this case

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• noting that allegations that prison staff members were holding plaintiffs relatives, friends, and neighbors hostage and that plaintiff had been subjected to witchcraft and attempted cyanide poisoning were factually frivolous, despite theoretical possibility
• dismissing § 1983 claim as frivolous where plaintiff alleged that, among other things, prison staff members were subjecting him to witchcraft
• dismissing § 1983 claim as frivolous where plaintiff alleged that, among other things, prison staff members were subjecting him to witchcraft
• dismissing as frivolous plaintiff’s complaint alleging that prison staff members held his friends, neighbors, and relatives hostage
• where plaintiff alleged that he was subjected to witchcraft and attempts to poison him with cyanide, the allegations were fanciful, fantastic or delusional
• “While the Court cannot discount with mathematical certainty the allegations in this case, the Court finds that, standing alone and in the absence of further factual detail, plaintiff's claims are so fanciful as to render each of his claims ‘clearly baseless.’”

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