Atchison v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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• finding that no “serious constitutional questions [are] raised” by the simultaneous collection of fees in each case under § 1915(b
• reasoning that the word “court” appearing in both § 1915(b)(1) and (b)(2) should be read to refer to the “instant action,” separate from previously filed lawsuits
• noting that “the duty to avoid constitutional questions is not a license to rewrite the statute,” and declining to follow Whitfield because “[e]ven if [the Second Circuit’s] constitutional arguments had merit, we would be bound by the unambiguous meaning of the text”
• noting “the common mandate of statutory construction to avoid absurd results”
• noting the long-standing rule that pro se pleadings must be construed liberally
• invoking the “common mandate of statutory construction to avoid absurd results”

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