United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit by an inmate alleging that North Carolina Department of Correction's Alexander Correctional Institute's failure to enforce its grooming policy puts inmates at risk of contracting various infections, inmate's motion to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) is granted, and the district court dismissal may not act as a third strike, precluding a prisoner litigant from proceeding IFP, on an appeal of the underlying dismissal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2012
• Published 06/05/2012

Judges

• GREGORY

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel