United States Second Circuit

28 USC 1915(b)(2), which limits costs to prisoners who file losing lawsuits to 20 percent of their earnings, generally requires sequential collection for multiple suits at a constant rate of 20 percent of monthly receipts to the prisoner's account.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/1999
• Decided 02/27/2001
• Published 02/27/2001

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:, Before: CARDAMONE, CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles D. Cole, Jr., New York, New York (Newman Fitch Altheim Myers, P.C., New York, New York, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant., John Whitfield, Ossining, New York, filed a brief as pro se Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan B. Eisner, Law Apprentice, New York, New York (Robert A. Forte, Deputy Solicitor General, Michael S. Belohlavek, Assistant Solicitor General, Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.