ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Chief Judge.
By enacting the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Pub.L. No. 104-134, §§ 801-10, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996), Congress has changed the scheme by which courts are to process requests for pauper status. No longer do courts first focus on the merits of a prisoner's complaint. Rather, it is the prisoner's financial status that the courts must initially examine. Pauper status for inmates, as we previously...
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