Vincent F. Rivera v. Florida Department of Corrections (526 U.S. 135)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 22, 1999 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 526 U.S. 135 · 119 S. Ct. 1166
- Decided
- March 22, 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
Per Curiam. Pro se petitioner Rivera seeks leave to proceed informa pauperis under Rule 39 of this Court. We deny this request pursuant to Rule 39.8. Rivera is allowed until April 12, 1999, within which to pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and to submit his petition 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 Rivera in noncriminal matters unless he pays the docketing fee required by Rule 38 and submits his petition in compliance with Rule 33.1. Rivera has abused this Court’s eertiorari and extraordinary writ processes. In January of this year, we twice invoked Rule 39.8 to deny Rivera in forma pauperis status. See Rivera v. Allin, 525 U. S. 1065; In re Rivera, 525 U. S. 1066. At that time, Rivera had filed two petitions for extraordinary writs and eight petitions for certiorari, all of which were both patently frivolous and had been denied without recorded dissent. The instant petition for certio-rari thus constitutes Rivera’s 13th frivolous filing with this Court. He has four additional filings — all of them patently frivolous — currently pending before this Court. We enter the order barring sons discussed in Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1 (1992) (per curiam). Rivera’s abuse of the writ of certiorari and of the…
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