Legal Opinion

Mehdipour v. State Ex Rel. Department of Corrections

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided March 30, 2004No. 99,301Published

1Opinion of the Court

90 P.3d 546 (2004)

2004 OK 19

Faramarz MEHDIPOUR, Plaintiff/Appellant,

v.

STATE ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants/Appellees.

No. 99,301.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

March 30, 2004.

Faramarz Mehdipour, Stringtown, OK, pro se.

J. Kevin Behrens, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, OK, For Defendants/Appellees.

KAUGER, J.

¶ 1 We granted certiorari to address the issue of whether inmates who seek to proceed as indigents or paupers, but who are required to prepay filing fees pursuant to 57 O.S.2001 § 566.2[1] if they have filed three or more meritless civil lawsuits are statutorily…

2Cases cited92 opinions

  1. Lewis v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1996
  2. Bounds v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  4. Boddie v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  5. Kenneth Jay Wilson v. Lewis Yaklich, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee. Kenneth Jay Wilson v. Mary SanfordCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1998

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