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TUCKER v. BRANKER

No. 96-5177.

142 F.3d 1294 (1998)

Cornelius TUCKER, Jr., Appellant, v. G. BRANKER, Captain, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph Y. Kim, student counsel, argued the cause as amicus curiae on the side of appellant, with whom Steven H. Goldblatt, appointed by the court, and Jose C. Escano, student counsel, were on the briefs.

R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellees, with whom Mary Lou Leary, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, was on the brief.

Before: GINSBURG and TATEL, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Cornelius Tucker, until recently a state prisoner in North Carolina, challenges the constitutionality of the filing-fee provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Title VIII of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-134, § 804, 110 Stat. 1321-66, 1321-73 (1996) (codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1915). Tucker contends that the filing-fee provision violates his rights of access to the...

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