Butler v. Department of Justice

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• noting that Butler had filed ten appeals in the D.C. Circuit, eight of which were in a four-year period, as well as some fifteen other listed actions
• concluding that a dismissal for failure to prosecute was not a strike because such a dismissal was made without regard to the merits, and each of the three strike categories in § 1915(g) involve dispositions looking to the merits
• noting that prisoners who repeatedly file as some sort of “past time” may be stripped of their IFP privileges
• noting that although a dismissal for failure to prosecute under Rule 41(b) “is not, in fact, a 5 decision on the merits” of a claim, it “functions as such for the purposes of claim preclusion”
• denying IFP privileges for a prisoner who had filed at least twenty- five actions and appeals and at least eight over the course of the previous four years
• denying prisoner leave to proceed IFP in advancing a Freedom of Information Act claim

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