Arkansas Department of Labor v. Fairfield Communities Land Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Supreme Court decision at issue had not “create[d] an exception for a pro se inmate to evade time requirements.”
• holding that for pro se prisoners, “the date of filing shall be that of delivery to prison officials of a complaint or other papers destined for district court for the purpose of ascertaining timeliness”
• holding that for pro se prisoners, “the date of filing shall be that of delivery to prison officials of a complaint or other papers destined for district court for the purpose of ascertaining timeliness” (emphasis in original)
• deciding the application of the prison-mailbox rule to plaintiff’s FTCA complaint and declining to address supplemental issues that “are not purely questions of law”
• observing that under the “mailbox rule” a court will generally deem a prisoner document filed on the date the plaintiff delivers it to prison officials for mailing
• stating that “the date of filing shall be that of delivery to prison officials of a complaint or other papers destined for district court for the purpose of ascertaining timeliness”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).