Legal Opinion
Washington v. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 12, 2016No. 13-56647PublishedCited by 557 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal addresses the application of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995’s (PLRA) “three-strikes” rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), to Plaintiff William Washington’s action against the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, Lee Baca, and the Twin Towers Correctional Facility (collectively, Defendants). The PLRA’s “three-strikes” rule prohibits a prisoner from filing an action in forma pauperis (IFP) if he has accumulated three “strikes” for pri- or federal-court actions while incarcerated or in detention, unless he is “under imminent danger of serious…
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