Gast v. Daily’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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1. “Lawsuits by prisoners, almost all filled with requests to proceed in forma pau-peris, are an ever increasing burden on the courts of this district. Multiple suits, filed by litigious inmates, compound the burden. It is not uncommon for the judges of this district to have as many as ten or more inmates as pro se claimants with more than one pending case on the docket at any given time. While the court must always be open to entertain an inmate’s legitimate, legally cognizable, grievances, it must be stressed that the court is not a correspondence school for creative writing. The court must be free to both rid itself of meritless cases and, in the case of the frequent litigator, control the filing of claims in the first instance. To accomplish these objectives, I am instituting the following policy. When an inmate has an open “in forma pauper-is” case pending and assigned to me, the inmate will not be permitted to proceed with a second or sequentially filed case without my prior approval. I will review all new complaints and, absent some demonstrable showing of emergency or extraordinary circumstance, the ease will be dismissed without prejudice. The complaint can be resubmitted at such time as the petitioner no longer has an active pro se case before me.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. Kunde