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4 F. App'x 451

Wills v. Terhune

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided February 21, 2001

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2001-02-21

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r · Barren v. Harrington · Lopez v. Ga Smith a 4a-2r

Decided 2001-02-21

¶1MEMORANDUM2

¶2Dale G. Wills, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to state a claim. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo dismissals under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), see Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir.1998) (order), and we vacate and remand.

¶3The district court properly determined that Wills failed to state a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), and in light of our three-judge decision in Lopez v. Smith, 160 F.3d 567, 571 (9th Cir.1998), withdrawn, 173 F.3d 749 (9th Cir. Apr.12, 1999). However, because of our subsequent decision in Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1127-30 (9th Cir.2000) (en banc), which holds that the PLRA does not over*452rule Ninth Circuit law requiring district courts to give a pro se prisoner an opportunity to amend a defective complaint, we vacate and remand for reconsideration in light of Lopez. See id.

¶4Each party shall bear its own costs.

¶5VACATED and REMANDED.

¶6. This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as may be provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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