Pointer v. Wilkinson

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that dismissing a claim for failure to state a claim operates as a “dismissal with prejudice”
• assessing a strike where the prisoner’s claims were dismissed for failure to exhaust and failure to state a claim
• observing, in dicta, that where a complaint is dismissed in its entirety for failure to exhaust, the plaintiff would have a “compelling argu- ment that a strike should not be assessed”
• “The PLRA requires prisoners who qualify for [in forma pauperis] status to pay an initial partial fee, followed by installment payments until the entire filing fee is paid.”
• “[W]here an entire complaint is dismissed, in part for failure to exhaust and in part for one of the grounds stated in § 1915(g), the dismissal should count as a strike.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).