United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________

No. 00-2055 ___________

Darrell Wayne Clifford, * * Appellant, * * v. * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the Robert D. Ecoffey, Superintendent, * District of South Dakota. United States Department of the * Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pine * [UNPUBLISHED] Ridge Indian Agency, Pine Ridge, * South Dakota, * * Appellee. * ___________

Submitted: February 12, 2001 Filed: February 14, 2001 ___________

Before BOWMAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges. ___________

PER CURIAM.

South Dakota inmate Darrell Clifford appeals from the district court’s1 28 U.S.C. § 1915e(2)(B)(i) pre-service dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. After careful review of the record, we agree with the district court that Clifford’s complaint was

1 The HONORABLE RICHARD H. BATTEY, United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota. frivolous. See West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42, 48 (1988). Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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

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