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Fourth Circuit Rules on IFP Statute, Again

Loaded on April 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News April, 1996, page 19
Filed under: Asbestos, Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Filing Fees. Location: Maryland.
In the July, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Nasim v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction, 42 F.3d 1472 (4th Cir. 1995) in which the fourth circuit court of appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoners' § 1983 suit as being frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d), the ...

 

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