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TAFARI v. HUES

Docket No. 05-0958-PR.

473 F.3d 440 (2007)

Injah E. TAFARI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William HUES, C.O.R. Fortes, C.O.S. Barto, Lt. Nagy, FDS Blinden, Brenda Schneider, William Russett, George Schneider, A. Esparra, Owen Schneider, DSA Haponik, Christopher Artuz, Glen S. Goord, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 4, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. O'Neil, Wilmer Cutler, Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP, New York, New York,(Noah A. Levine, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David Lawrence III, Assistant Solicitor General of the State of New York, New York, NY, (Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel, Division of Appeals & Opinions, for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before McLAUGHLIN, SOTOMAYOR, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

Indigent or otherwise disadvantaged litigants are afforded a certain degree of leeway in the American court system, whether in the form of relaxed pleading standards for pro se litigants or the waiver of filing fees for those unable to afford them. However, the courts' generosity has its limits.

Frivolous litigation, for example, is precisely the sort of mischief that the courts will not...

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