Legal Opinion

Anant Kumar Tripati v. Richard H. Rison, Warden

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided May 23, 1988No. 87-6205, 87-6210PublishedCited by 73 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Tripati appeals a magistrate’s denial of his motion to proceed in the district court in forma pauperis. We conclude that we lack jurisdiction over Tripati’s appeals and transfer them to the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631.

On May 21, 1987, Tripati attempted to file a civil rights complaint, along with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, in the district court for the Central District of California. The Clerk assigned a miscellaneous docket number to the pleadings, but did not officially file them. Without assigning the case to a district judge, the clerk sent the file to a United…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Roberts v. United States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  2. Clay Ambrose v. Neil Welch, George Wilson, Stephen Smith, Dewey Sowders, J.B. Owens, F. Richardsville, Sidney McDaniels and Robert HodgeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1984
  3. Alaniz v. California Processors, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
  4. Jeremiah Geaney and Garvin Dale White v. Norman CarlsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985

3Cited by73 opinions

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  5. Patricia Helen Bush v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of ColoradoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994

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