Christopher Columbus Cooper v. O.A. Brookshire, Sheriff of Ector County, Texas

*378WIENER, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue presented by this appeal is whether, for purposes of Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(e), a prisoner’s pro se complaint is “filed” on the date it is properly delivered to prison officials pursuant to the prison’s established procedure for prisoners’ mail,1 rather than the date it is received by the clerk of court. Agreeing with the conclusions uniformly reached by all four circuit courts that have considered this question,2 we hold that Plaintiff-Appellant Christopher Columbus Cooper’s complaint against prison officials in Ector County, Texas (Ector County officials) should…