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FRANKLIN v. STATE OF OR., STATE WELFARE DIVISION

Nos. 80-3306 to 80-3338.

662 F.2d 1337 (1981)

Harry FRANKLIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF OREGON, STATE WELFARE DIVISION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Ransom, Ransom, Rogers & Blackman, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant.

Virginia L. Linder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, Or., argued, for defendants-appellees; J. Scott McAlister, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, Or., on brief.

Before SNEED and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and CRAIG, District Judge.

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal confronts us with a trial court's efforts to expedite the disposition of numerous complaints filed by a prisoner, pro se. We must determine whether the district court erred in dismissing on its own motion before issuance of summonses thirty-three of Franklin's pro se complaints for which Franklin paid the filing fees.1 We hold that the dismissal of actions on the court's own motion before issuance...

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