IN RE SARGENT

No. 96-7113.

136 F.3d 349 (1998)

In re: Pamela A. SARGENT, Appellant, Richard Kenneth COX, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lonnie SAUNDERS; Augusta Correctional Center; Sergeant Sprouse; C. Ailstock; D. Boyers, Captain; Sergeant Santiago; Counselor Nealy; Warden of Brunswick Correctional Center; Mr. Goodman; Doctor Saathoff; Mister Davallou; Doctor Degala, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: William Gatling Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellant. Steven H. Goldblatt, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Richard Cullen, Attorney General of Virginia, Claude A. Allen, Deputy Attorney General, Neil A.G. McPhie, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for Appellant. Michelle J. Anderson, Supervising Attorney, Shirley D. Woodward, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Before WILKINS and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, sitting by designation.


Reversed by published opinion. Judge WILKINS wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Senior Judge CAMPBELL joined.

OPINION

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

Pamela A. Sargent, an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, appeals a sanction imposed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 enjoining application of subsection (g) of 28 U.S.C.A. § 1915 (West Supp.1997), as enacted by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) of...

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