Joseph Ladeairous v. Jeff Sessions

Williams, Senior Circuit Judge:

We recently decided that under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (the "PLRA") a district court's decision to decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims does not count as a "strike" against a prisoner seeking in forma pauperis ("IFP") privileges in later litigation. Fourstar v. Garden City Grp., Inc. , 875 F.3d 1147 (D.C. Cir. 2017). This case presents a wrinkle on that one: what happens when a district court in effect , though not in its exact terms, declines to hear state law claims in situations where 28 U.S.C. § 1367 would authorize it…