Gay v. Texas Department of Corrections State Jail Div.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prisoner’s release is “irrelevant” when § 1915’s triggering event—the filing of a complaint or an appeal—occurred while the plaintiff was in prison
• holding that the plaintiffs release from custody does not excuse his compliance with the PLRA
• finding that a prisoner’s release does not relieve his obligation to pay the full filing fee for filing an action or appeal while he was incarcerated
• finding prisoner-plaintiff remains “subject to the filing-fee requirements of the PLRA despite [his] subsequent release from prison”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).