Supreme Court· 2/21/1989

In Re McDonald

Citations

489 U.S. 180
109 S. Ct. 993
103 L. Ed. 2d 158
1989 U.S. LEXIS 597
57 U.S.L.W. 3545

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recognizing that courts have responsibility to ensure that their \resources are allocated in a way that promotes the interests of justice\
noting that filing fees, in theory, help discourage frivolous lawsuits and allocate judicial resources to more meritorious cases
noting that “[e]very paper filed with the Clerk of this Court, no matter how repetitious or frivolous, requires some portion of the institution’s limited resources”
finding that “[ejvery paper filed with the Clerk of this Court, no matter how repetitious or frivolous, requires some portion of the institution’s limited resources”
denying petitioner IFP status whenever seeking an extraordinary writ because petitioner’s seventy-three filings over eighteen years were an abuse of the privilege
requiring petitioner to pay docketing fees for extraordinary writs and petitions after having filed 73 separate filings with the Court

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Judges: Per Curiam

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