No. 18-9640

Paul Eugene Lawson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-06-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-warning in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction legal-sequestration legal-work prison prison-discipline standing
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

Can a district court dismiss petitioner's lawsuit based upon the State attorney's waiver of reply to complaint?

Can prison officials punish petitioner without a 'fair warning' before disciplinary sanctions on policy issue?

Can petitioner's legal work be sequestrated without 'some evidence' of a known prohibition?

The issue the petitioner request the Court decide, is whether he has arguable claims to the dispute with the defendant-appellees to proceed in forma pauperis.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can a district court dismiss petitioner's lawsuit based upon the State's attorney's waiver of reply to complaint?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-04-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 12, 2019)

Attorneys

Paul Lawson
Paul Eugene Lawson — Petitioner