Legal Opinion
Flint v. Haynes
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1981No. Nos. 78-6354, 78-6378, 79-6802PublishedCited by 167 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge:
This is a consolidated appeal from three separate inmate civil rights actions brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which judgment was entered for the defendants and costs were assessed against the plaintiffs. The only issue presented for review is whether the district court may assess costs against civil rights litigants who have been granted leave to proceed in forma pauper-is.1 We find that 28 U.S.C. § 1915 authorizes the assessment of costs; accordingly, we affirm the judgments below.
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