Debro S. Abdul-Akbar v. Roderick R. Mckelvie

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that being sprayed with pepper spray on one occasion is not imminent danger
• holding that “a prisoner may invoke the ‘imminent danger’ exception only to seek relief from a danger which is ‘imminent’ at the time the complaint is filed”
• holding that an “order denying leave to proceed I.F.P. is a final, collateral order appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
• holding that “[b]y using the term ‘imminent,’ Congress indicated that it wanted to include a safety valve for the ‘three strikes’ rule to prevent impending harms, not those harms that had already occurred.”
• holding that “[b]y using the term ‘imminent,’ Congress indicated that it wanted to include a safety valve for the ‘three strikes’ rule to prevent impending harms, not those harms that had already occurred.”
• holding that neither prisoners nor indigents are suspect classes for equal protection purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).