Tommie L. Toliver v. County of Sullivan, Richard L. Green, Lloyd T. Shimer, Leon Siegel, Brian Ingber

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• reasoning that a pro se prisoner’s in forma pauperis civil rights complaint 5 was deemed “filed” when received by pro se court office
• explaining that the date of receipt of pro se papers by the Pro Se Office is the date for calculating the statute of limitations
• In a pro se case “where in forma pauperis relief is granted, the action should be treated as timely, provided the complaint was received by the clerk’s office prior to the expiration of the limitations period.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).