Edward A. Campbell, Jr., Latashia R. Cook v. Davenport Police Department

While confined in a county jail in July 2006, Edward R. Campbell filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, having filed three other section 1983 complaints the month before. The district court dismissed the instant complaint, finding that the 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b) dismissals of the earlier three complaints constituted three “strikes” under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). Campbell appeals, and requests leave to appeal in forma pauperis (IFP).

Section 1915(g) does not apply unless the inmate litigant has three strikes at the time he files his lawsuit or appeal. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) (in no event shall…