Robert Lumbert v. Illinois Department of Corrections

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• recognizing that filing fees serve an important purpose within the judicial system
• contending that application of the rule to prisoners is justified because \the costs of a prisoner's time are ... low[er]\ compared to other indigents
• affirming dismissal for failure to submit filing fee when the record demonstrated that the prisoner-plaintiff chose to “use his money for other purposes”
• upholding Central District’s partial-payment plan instituted for prisoners proceeding in forma pauperis; decided before Prison Litigation Reform Act was enacted on April 26, 1996, which requires partial payments in prisoner cases, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(2)
• “[I]t is not true that 23 placing any cost on the filing of litigation violates the Constitution. Otherwise all filing 24 fees would be unconstitutional, which of course they are not.”
• “If the inmate thinks that a more worthwhile use of his funds would be to buy peanuts and candy ... than to file a civil rights suit, he has demonstrated an implied evaluation of the suit that the district court is entitled to honor.”

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