In Re Norman Crittenden

Norman Crittenden, a Texas state prisoner, petitions .this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the district court to withdraw its order of December 16, 1997, denying Crit-tenden’s request to proceed in forma pau-poris in his appeal of the district court’s dismissal of his civil rights action.

In In re Stone, 118 F.3d 1032 (5th Cir.1997), this Court addressed the applicability of the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s (PLRA) amendments to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 with regard to a petition for a writ of mandamus prohibiting a district judge from improperly influencing an administrative review of the…