Ellis v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Muniz · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Virgil Norton, Virgil Wesley and James Chapman v. James P. McShane · Murray v. United States · James G. Carey v. Dr. Russell O. Settle
Most-quoted passages
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““Prisoners will not lightly be permitted to use 28 U.S.C.A. § 1915 (a) to institute suits for damages or injunction against the officials in whose custody they have been placed for confinement. Taylor v. Steele, 8 Cir., 191 F. 2d 852, 853 . Such actions are too frequently mere outlets for general discontent in having to undergo penal restraint or of personal satisfaction in attempting to harass- prison officials. A court therefore should be satisfied that there exists substantiality as to such a claim, of justiciable basis and of impressing reality before it permits a prisoner to maintain an action therefor on in-forma-pauperis privilege. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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