Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
12-8-2014
Abstract
Amici are professors with an academic interest in prisoner litigation and federal courts
The Prison Litigation Reform Act's "three strikes" provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), bars a prisoner from bringing a civil action without prepaying the full amount of the filing fee only if that prisoner has three prior qualifying dismissals that have become final on appeal.
Reversing the Sixth Circuit's contrary reading of the statute in this case will not open the floodgates to frivolous prisoner litigation, as both the provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and data from the Federal Judicial Center confirm.
Recommended Citation
Schlanger, Margo, "Coleman v. Tollefson: Brief Amici Curiae of Thirty-Three Professors in Support of Petitioner" (2014). Appellate Briefs. 94.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/briefs/94
Comments
Amicus: Armstrong, Andrea; Aviram, Hadar; Ball, W. David; Branham, Lynn S.; Calavita, Kitty; Colgan, Beth; Dignam, Brett; Dolovich, Sharon; Feeley, Malcolm; Ferguson, Robert A.; Ginsberg, Betsy; Gottschalk, Marie; Kohler-Hausmann, Issa; Hempel, Carrie L.; Henderson, Taja-Nia; Kreimer, Seth; Lasch, Christopher N.; Lynch, Mona; McLennan, Rebecca; Metcalf, Hope; Mills, Alan; Mushlin, Michael B.; Reinert, Alexander A.; Reiter, Keramet; Resnik, Judith; Robbins, Ira P.; Roosevelt, Kermit; Rudovsky, David; Russell, Sarah French; Schlanger, Margo; Schwartz, Joanna C.; SpearIt,; Starr, Sonja