Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Outrageous Lawsuits Message-ID: <806@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 13:56:17 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.806 Posted: Thu Jul 11 13:56:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 08:16:39 EDT References: <6258@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <5559@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept Lines: 10 While many lawsuits filed from prison might be sheerly for nuisance value, all the same the right to file suits pro se or in forma pauperis is important. Apart from individual protections, it has sometimes been the source of important doctrine -- e.g. Gideon v Wainwright started as an in forma pauperis petition. So I suggest that requiring prisons to maintain law libraries is pretty reasonable. -- -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mmar