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No Filing Fee Lien Allowed in Florida Mandamus Cases
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2008, page 49
In two rulings, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal has held a circuit court departed from the essential elements of law when it placed a lien on a prisoner’s trust account to satisfy the filing fee for a mandamus petition.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Litigation,
Mandamus,
Filing Fees,
Sentencing,
Good Time.
Location:
Florida.
Florida prisoner James P. Anderson filed a mandamus petition challenging …
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