United States Seventh Circuit

Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1915(g), a district judge should not have authorized a prisoner to appeal the dismissal of a complaint, his third dismissed for failure to state a claim; prisoner could have sought leave to appeal from the Circuit Court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2002
• Published 07/12/2002

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald Robinson (submitted a brief), Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis, TN, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lynden D. Schmidt (submitted a brief), Office of the State's Attorney, Civil Division, Kevin W. Lyons, Peoria, IL, Kerry E. Saltzman, Stickler & nelson, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.