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Mailbox Rule Applies to Trust Fund Statement
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1998, page 8
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379 (1988) applies to the filing of trust fund account statements as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(2) of the PLRA's filing fee requirements. Curtis James, an Arizona state prisoner, filed a …
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