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Texas Court of Appeals Orders Clerk to File Prisoner's Notice of Appeal

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Appeals, Mandamus. Location: Texas.

On November 26, 2008, a Texas court of appeals granted a petition for a writ of mandamus and ordered the District Clerk of Walker County, Texas, to file a prisoner's pro se notice of appeal.

Clifford Allen Smith, a Texas state prisoner, was declared a vexatious litigant by order of …

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