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Complaint Can't Be Dismissed if Partial Filing Fee Paid

The court of appeals for the second circuit held that district courts cannot require indigent litigants to pay a partial filing fee and then dismiss their complaints as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d). Jerry Hughes, a New York state prisoner filed suit claiming a district attorney had committed perjury ...

 

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