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GRAHAM v. RIDDLE

Nos. 76-1584, 76-1587 to 76-1590 and 76-2216.

554 F.2d 133 (1977)

Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. W. M. RIDDLE, Appellee. Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS, Director, Virginia State Penitentiary, et al., Appellees. Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. Rebecca PONDER, Administrator, Central State Hospital, et al., Appellees. Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS and A. G. Robinson, Appellees. Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS, W. M. Riddle, and Sergeant D. T. Scites, Appellees. Ronald GRAHAM, Appellant, v. Jack DAVIS, Director, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart W. Settle, Richmond, Va. (Coates & Comess, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Alan Katz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff, Ronald Graham, appeals from orders of the district court conditioning his right to file complaints in forma pauperis upon "good cause shown." We affirm.

I.

Graham was and is an inmate of the Virginia state prison system. From December 1972 through April 1973, he filed six complaints with the district court, each pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The complaints were...

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