Barnes v. Eighth Judicial District Court

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “plaintiffs who are allowed to proceed in forma pauperis are not affected by economic deterrents to filing frivolous lawsuits”
• vacating for overbreadth a restrictive order that purported to declare all of an individual’s filings “null and void”
• statute that authorized the district court to refuse to file the pleadings of indigent persons without a certificate of merit from an attorney was unconstitutional
• prisoner’s right of access to court cannot be denied on basis of indigency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).