Court Opinion

ID: 9665050
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:38:00.638728+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:12.529125
License: Public Domain

COMBS, Chief Judge,
Dissenting:
I file this dissent because I believe that we are belaboring a moot point. The case has been dismissed, and we have impliedly indicated that the court did not err in dismissing it for having been filed frivolously. If the court had decided to allow the case to proceed, it indicated that it would then have exercised its discretion as to whether to allow Edwards to proceed in forma pauperis. (Page 802 of the majority opinion.) The court also indicated that if it had then found the status of in forma pauperis to be appropriate, it would have assessed a fee of $40.
Again, I believe that the discretionary process employed by the trial court as to the issue of proceeding in forma pauperis is a moot point that is beyond our analysis.
Consequently, I would affirm in toto without a remand.