The Supreme Court Oct. 18 agreed to review the scope of a federal law limiting the number of “free” suits prisoners can file after their previous ones have been determined frivolous.
The circuit courts have split 6-2 on whether a dismissal without prejudice counts as a “strike” prohibiting prisoners from filing an “in forma pauperis” suit—that is, without having to pay filing fees.
Federal law generally prohibits prisoners from bring such suits whenever three or more previous suits have been “dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be ...
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