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Case 3:05-cv-00724-HTS Document 4 Filed 08/02/2005 Page 1 of 4
Plaintiff,
Defendants.
the civil rights complaint form, Plaintiff signed his name after
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fully informing the Court regarding previous filings, the facts and
such as this pending before it. This Court firmly believes that
Lawsuits."
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This section is commonly referred to as the "three strikes"
provision. See Rivera v. Allin, 144 F.3d 719 (11th Cir. 1998). In
Rivera, the court found that the dismissal of one of the
plaintiff's previous lawsuits as an abuse of the judicial process
(for lying under penalty of perjury about the existence of a prior
lawsuit) should count as one of the three strikes under this
provision because "dismissal for abuse of the judicial process is
precisely the type of strike that Congress envisioned when drafting
section 1915(g)." Rivera v. Allin, 144 F.3d at 731.
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Plaintiff names two physicians, as Defendants, who are employed
at Everglades Correctional Institution in Dade County, Florida, and
it appears that some of the claims arose at Everglades Correctional
Institution.
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Therefore, it is now
pauper). Plaintiff should not place this case number on the forms.
August, 2005.
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