Legal Opinion
Tucker, Cornelius v. Branker, G.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 12, 1998No. 96-5177PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Cornelius Tucker, until recently a state prisoner in North Carolina, challenges the constitutionality of the filing-fee provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Title VIII of the Omnibus Consolidated Re-scissions and Appropriations Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-134, § 804,110 Stat. 1321-66, 1321-73 (1996) (codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1915). Tucker contends that the filing-fee provision violates his rights of access to the courts and to equal protection of the laws, both as protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the…
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