Manuel Lewis v. Richmond City Police Department, Director of Public Safety, City Manager

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Houston mailbox rule “provides that a statute of limitations has the same practical effect on every pro se prisoner litigant it governs” and “[t]he length of the time restriction in- volved is irrelevant”
• stating that “filing occurs when the [imprisoned] petitioner delivers his pleading to prison authorities for forwarding to the court clerk”
• holding prisoner’s pleading is considered filed when delivered to prison officials for mailing to the court
• noting that, for a prisoner, “filing occurs when the petitioner delivers his pleading to prison authorities for forwarding to the court clerk”
• holding prisoner’s pleading is considered filed when delivered to prison officials for mailing to the court
• holding prisoner’s pleading is considered filed when delivered to prison officials for mailing to the court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).