Legal Opinion
Harris v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 2, 2010No. Docket 09-0081-prPublishedCited by 313 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:
This case calls upon us in principal part to interpret the “three strikes rule” of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), which prohibits incarcerated prisoners from filing in forma pauperis in federal court if they have previously brought three or more actions or appeals that were dismissed on the grounds that they were frivolous, malicious, or failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. In the matter at hand, our task is to determine whether, pursuant to the three strikes rule, a district court should dismiss a…
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