Jerry D. Hughes v. City of Albany

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• holding that for plaintiffs “seeking in forma pauperis status,” ... [t]he discretion to waive prepayment of filing fees [is] conferred upon district judges by Section 1915”
• noting that only after paying a filing fee – or being granted in forma pauperis status – is a plaintiff considered to have 4 “‘filed’ his complaint for purposes of Rule 4” and “therefore entitled to have a summons issued”

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