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PLRA Fee Provisions Apply to All Pending Cases in the Fifth Circuit
Loaded on April 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1999, page 8
The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a), which requires that prisoners ultimately pay all filing fee costs, applies retroactively to cases filed before the PLRA's enactment, if they are still pending. In Strickland v. Rankin County Corr. Facility, 105 F.3d 972 (5th Cir. ...
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