Ahamad Atkins v. J. Gilbert

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that claims dismissed because defendants were absolutely immune from suits for damages were frivolous because “established precedent forecloses those claims”
• explaining that dismissing a case as frivolous merely acknowledges that established precent forecloses the claims
• affirming a district court judge’s conclusion that a case dismissed on immunity grounds against federal defenders and judges was frivolous and constituted a strike
• warning the plaintiff that he “should be aware . . . that persistence in filing frivolous claims or appeals can invite sanctions from the court[]”
• describing claims as frivolous “acknowledges that established precedent forecloses those claims”
• “Atkins’s [Bivens] claim against the court reporter failed because it did not arise under the Fourth, Fifth, or Eighth Amendment and therefore fell outside of the Bivens theory now recognized by the Supreme Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).