In re EILEEN VEY (520 U.S. 303)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 14, 1997 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 520 U.S. 303 · 117 S. Ct. 1294
- Decided
- April 14, 1997
- Term
- October Term 1996
- Vote
- 8–1
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Per Curiam. Pro se petitioner Eileen Vey seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis and requests this Court to issue a writ of habeas corpus vacating her 13-year-old convictions. This is not Vey’s first filing in this Court. In the past 6V2 years, she has filed 11 petitions for certiorari, 12 petitions for extraordinary relief, and 2 applications for bail. All of these have been denied. For the first 14 of those submissions, we granted her motions to proceed informa pauperis. Since then, we have five times denied her leave to proceed in forma pauperis under this Court’s Rule 39.8. We again deny petitioner’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis. Her various allegations are supported by nothing other than her own conclusory statements that they are true. Petitioner is allowed until May 5, 1997, within which to pay the docketing fees required by Rule 38 and to submit her petition in compliance with Rule 33.1. In light of her history of frivolous, repetitive filings, we direct the Clerk of the Court not to accept any further petitions for extraordinary writs from petitioner unless she first pays the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and submits her petition in compliance with Rule 33. We enter the order barring future in forma pauperis filings for the reasons discussed in Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). It is so ordered. Rule 39.8…
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