Legal Opinion
Ana Luci Gelabert v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 20, 1990No. 89-1876PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Per curiam
Sanctions against a recreational litigator occupy us in today’s appeal, one in which Ana Lucia Gelabert, a state prisoner, asserts a right to commence new litigation in defiance of an earlier court order sanctioning her for frivolous pro se litigation and forbidding the clerk of court to accept further filings from her until the sanction is satisfied.
Facts and Procedural History
Gelabert, a litigious prisoner in the Texas Department of Corrections’ (TDC) Mountain View Unit, originally filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas in August 1986. The caption of her suit initially…
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