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En Banc Third Circuit Rules on PLRA Three Strikes
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 29
In a 134 en banc decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned its prior interpretation of the "imminent danger" exception to the PLRA's "three strikes" rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), and adopted the interpretation given to the phrase by the Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. In ...
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