WOLFE v. GEORGE

No. 05-16674.

486 F.3d 1120 (2007)

Burton H. WOLFE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ronald M. GEORGE, Chief Justice; Deborah Silva, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton H. Wolfe, pro se, San Francisco, CA, for the appellant.

Jill Bowers, Deputy Attorney General for the state of California, Sacramento, CA, for the appellee.

Before: GILBERT S. MERRITT, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge.

This is a challenge to the California vexatious litigant statute on numerous constitutional grounds.

Facts

Burton H. Wolfe filed a number of pro se complaints regarding San Francisco taxicab companies. In 1992, the Superior Court for the County of San Francisco deemed him a "vexatious litigant" and imposed a prefiling order. As we explain below, the order required Wolfe to present his complaints for review by a judge before...

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