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Released Prisoner Must Pay Filing Fees
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 14
The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a person who files a notice of appeal while in prison is subject to the PLRA's filing fee requirements even if later released from prison. The court distinguished this case from Haynes v. Scott, 116 F.3d 137 (5th Cir. 1997) ...
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