Robert Moates v. P. Rademacher, K. McQueen

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Robert Moates, an incarcerated pro se litigant, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, entered sua sponte by then-Chief Judge Michael A. Telesca. The order required Moates to obtain approval of a judge of that court before filing “any further complaints, pleadings or documents” with the Clerk of the Court. The judge imposed the injunction because of Moates’s allegedly consistent and flagrant abuse of the judicial process in the district court. Because the order was entered without notice to Moates and an…