Legal Opinion
Burton H. Wolfe v. Ronald M. George, Chief Justice Deborah Silva
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 30, 2007No. 05-16674PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.
This is a challenge to the California vexatious litigant statute on numerous constitutional grounds.
Facts
Burton H. Wolfe filed a number of pro se complaints regarding San Francisco taxicab companies. In 1992, the Superior Court for the County of San Francisco deemed him a “vexatious litigant” and imposed a prefiling order. As we explain below, the order required Wolfe to present his complaints for review by a judge before filing them. The order was rescinded in 1999, and in less than a year Wolfe filed another six lawsuits in the state courts.
Wolfe brought this…
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