Legal Opinion
In Re Prison Litigation Reform Act
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1997No. 97-01PublishedCited by 1,165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Chief Judge.
By enacting the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Pub.L. No. 104-134, §§ 801-10, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996), Congress has changed the scheme by which courts are to process requests for pauper status. No longer do courts first focus on the merits of a prisoner’s complaint. Rather, it is the prisoner’s financial, status that the courts must initially examine. Pauper status for inmates, as we previously knew it, no longer exists. All prisoners while incarcerated must now pay the required filing fees and costs. When an inmate seeks pauper status, the…
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