Legal Opinion

Mehdipour v. STATE EX REL. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided March 30, 2004No. 99301Published

1Opinion of the Court

2004 OK 19

FARAMARZ MEHDIPOUR, Plaintiff/Appellant,

v.

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

No. 99301

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

March 30, 2004

Faramarz Mehdipour, Stringtown, Oklahoma Pro se.

J. Kevin Behrens, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 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 denied due…

2Cases cited93 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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