Jones v. Smith

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Jones, an inmate in the New York correctional system, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Sharpe, C.J.). The district court denied Jones’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis and entered a conditional order dismissing Jones’s civil rights complaint if he failed to pay the required filing fee. This appeal raises an issue of first impression in our circuit concerning the interpretation of the so-called three strikes provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”). The three…