Court Opinion

ID: 9490767
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:54:03.08444+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:18.431964
License: Public Domain

concurring and dissenting.
I concur in so much of the court’s opinion as holds that a prisoner in a civil action may file a motion to proceed under § 1915 despite the fact that the district court has certified that the appeal is not taken in good faith, and that the filing of such a motion triggers the prisoner’s duty to pay the filing fees, subject to certain exceptions. With respect, however, I cannot locate in any statute or common-law principle the authority that the court evidently asserts to promulgate rules for the district courts in cases like the present one, or, indeed, in any other kind of case. The court engages not in adjudication, but in rule-making, and rule-making, moreover, of a kind for which the court does not even purport to find a warrant. I therefore respeet-*486fully dissent from the portion of the court’s judgment that derives from the part of its opinion regulating the district courts’ handling of eases under the PLRA.