Ronald Dean Lowe v. Marcus Pogue et al. (526 U.S. 273)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 29, 1999 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 526 U.S. 273 · 119 S. Ct. 1238
- Decided
- March 29, 1999
- Term
- October Term 1998
- Vote
- 8–1
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
526 U.S. 273 (1999) LOWE v. POGUE et al. No. 98-7591. United States Supreme Court. Decided March 29, 1999. [*] ON MOTION FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS Per Curiam. Pro se petitioner Lowe seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis under Rule 39 of this Court. We deny this request pursuant to Rule 39.8. Lowe is allowed until April 19, 1999, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and to submit his petitions in compliance with this Court's Rule 33.1. We also direct the Clerk not to accept any further petitions for certiorari nor petitions for extraordinary writs from Lowe in noncriminal matters unless he pays the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and submits his petition in compliance with Rule 33.1. Lowe has abused this Court's certiorari and extraordinary writ processes. In November of last year and earlier this month, we invoked Rule 39.8 to deny Lowe in forma pauperis status. See Lowe v. Cantrell, 525 U. S. 1176 (1999); In re Lowe, 525 U. S. 960 (1998) (three cases). Before these 4 denials, Lowe had filed 23 petitions, all of which were both patently frivolous and had been denied without recorded *274 dissent. The 4 instant petitions for certiorari thus bring Lowe's total number of frivolous filings to 31. He has several additional filingsall of them patently frivolous currently pending before this Court. We enter the order barring prospective…
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