Gladys L. Cok v. Family Court of Rhode Island

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• holding that courts may impose filing restrictions on abusive litigants after they have been duly warned that such “restrictions may be in the offing”
• suggesting that more ____ ___ narrowly drawn ban on further attempts to remove proceedings from Family Court divorce case would have been approved
• suggesting that more narrowly drawn ban on further attempts to remove proceedings from Family Court divorce case would have been approved
• noting that federal courts “plainly possess discretionary powers to regulate the conduct of abusive litigants” through filing restrictions
• explaining that “[f]ederal courts plainly possess discretionary powers to regulate the conduct of abusive litigants,” including the power to issue injunctions restricting those litigants’ court access
• cautioning that injunction restricting court access across the board should be issued \only when abuse is so continuous and widespread as to suggest no reasonable alternative\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).