Gary Lefkowitz v. Citi-Equity Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding “the phrase ‘civil action or appeal’ is not limited to challenges to conditions of confinement, and encompasses . . . commercial litigation”
• noting that “a prisoner who brings ‘a civil action or files an appeal’ IFP is required to pay the full amount of the filing fee” (citing § 1915(b)(1))
• finding that, “[b]ecause the PLRA fee provisions were designed to require prisoners to bear financial responsibility for each action they take, the [20]-percent rule should be applied simultaneously per case.”
• rejecting “per inmate” approach to the “PLRA[’s] fee provisions” as inconsistent with Congress’s intent
• “[W]e agree with our fellow circuits that these fee provisions do not deny prisoners constitutionally guaranteed access to courts.”
• “[W]e agree with our fellow circuits that these fee provisions do not deny prisoners constitutionally guaranteed access to courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).