Scott v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2004
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Houston v. Lack · Halas v. Department of Energy · Wilson v. Yaklich · Dean v. Veterans Administration Regional Office
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hen a petitioner files for permission to file IFP, a complaint is considered filed on the day the clerk's office receives both the complaint and the application to proceed IFP, even if the complaint is not formally stamped 'filed' until a later date when the IFP application is granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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