State of Iowa v. Emmanuel Berryman

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “a court has the power to monitor a prisoner’s financial situation in order to ensure that the prisoner does not deplete his trust account in order to avoid paying the filing fee”
• even if disclosing future income were required, the court would “need to decide whether his omission made his affidavit of poverty … ‘dishonest’ or ‘false’”
• even if disclosing future income were required, the court would “need to decide whether his omission made his affidavit of poverty … ‘dishonest’ or ‘false’”
• “[T]o ensure that [the trust account statement] is an accurate reflection of the prisoner’s financial situation, the PLRA calls for a six-month look-back.”
• “[T]o ensure that this snapshot of present assets is an accurate reflection of the pris- oner’s financial situation, the PLRA calls for a six-month look- back.”
• courts can, in an oversight role, monitor a prisoner’s finances “to ensure that the prisoner does not deplete his trust account in order to avoid paying the filing fee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).