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No. 92-1187
ARTHUR D'AMARIO, III,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
PROFESSIONAL SECURITY SERVICES, ET AL.,
Defendants, Appellees.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
[Hon. Ernest C. Torres, U.S. District Judge]
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Before
Breyer, Chief Judge,
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Campbell, Senior Circuit Judge,
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and Boudin, Circuit Judge.
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Per Curiam.
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Plaintiff-appellant
Arthur D'Amario
filed a complaint on
district court
Providence
Civic Center
security personnel
Authority
("PROCCA"), various
and under
personnel
concert at
the
The complaint
under 42 U.S.C.
infringements of D'Amario's
denied
D'Amario
Providence
1983
Civic
which PROCCA
admittance
Center
to
because
a rock
D'Amario
Center
v.
concerts.
Authority, 639
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D'Amario
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F.Supp. 1538
Providence Civic
Center
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815 F.2d
859 (1987).
In
opportunity
the instant
for
some
case,
after D'Amario
discovery,
The
doctrine of
stare decisis,
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had had
an
judge
on
the magistrate
magistrate
judge
ruled that
(1)
by
the
in D'Amario
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violated
by enforcement
D'Amario's
1983
Department
claims
charging
imprisonment, and
of
the
against
no-camera rule;
the
assault,
rights
Providence
Police
arrest,
false
false
malicious prosecution
(2)
any
imprisonment,
Professional
employees
and
protection
malicious
Security Services, a
sounded only
claim
was
in state
prosecution
against
private company,
and its
law; (4)
defective
for
D'Amario's equal
lack
of
adequate
of a protected right or
the
Rhode
Retardation and
employed by
Department
to give D'Amario
Mental
court accepted
On October
the magistrate
Health
that doctors
sleeping pills
district
of
RIMHRH refused
while he was in
of
Island
a claim
judge's
report and
D'Amario filed
Fed.
R. Civ.
P.
number of objections
to the merits
He also raised a
of the district
court's
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dismissal.
On
summarily denied
December
20,
1991,
D'Amario's motion.
the
district
court
D'Amario appeals.
We
affirm.
D'Amario argues on appeal that the district court's
refusal to
permit him to
file an amended
complaint, curing
F.2d 1
1990).
In Street, the district court dismissed plaintiff's
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had responded
found that
support
court
the
to
the complaint.
complaint
its allegations
did
of civil
The
not allege
district
facts
rights violations.
plaintiff an opportunity
out
to
This
We pointed
forma
pauperis complaint
1915(d).
We
found
factually deficient,
U.S.C.
that
plaintiff's
under 28
complaint,
U.S.C.
while
purposes of 28
supporting facts
sufficient
is "frivolous"
were pleaded.
to support
a dismissal
R. Civ.
Mere
P. 12(b)(6), but
to state
a Rule
12(b)(6)
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plaintiff
to be heard.
Thus, we
requirements for
requirements for
1915(d)
dismissal nor
Rule 12(b)(6)
dismissal
were met.
In Forte, similarly, we reversed the dismissal of a
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pro se, in forma pauperis complaint because the complaint was
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not "frivolous" under
complaint
12(b)(6)
may
have been
as factually
without notice
defendant
1915(d)
subject
deficient
was improper
dismissal under
--
Rule
sua sponte
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dismissal
Although
to
the
to dismiss, we
sua
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situation
complaint was
sponte.
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To
pleadings submitted
objections
the
some discovery
reveals that in
28 U.S.C.
was by no
the district
these
motions,
during
none of these
court
on the
D'Amario filed
long
different.
The dismissal
contrary,
by various
to
altogether
dismissed under
numerous
not
is
that period.
before
the
D'Amario even
The
record
request
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leave
It was
judge
issued
recommendation, recommending
his
report
and
in these
opportunity to respond to
circumstances.
D'Amario
had ample
we
court's implicit
report and
his
can
find
denial, in adopting
recommendation,
complaint.
discretion,
no fault
The district
see Fed.
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with
the
district
of D'Amario's motions
court acted
R. Civ. P.
to amend
well within
15(a), in
its
concluding that
also challenges on
appeal the
merits of
his complaint.
We
that
stated
magistrate
dismissal
for the
reasons
in the
affirm
objections and
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