No. 19-6666

Christopher Thornton v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections

Lower Court: First Circuit
Docketed: 2019-11-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court filing-fees habeas-corpus return-of-fees rule-60
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the filing of a State prisoner writ of habeas corpus prohibit the federal court from returning a filing fees?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . i. does the filing of a State prisoner writ of habeas corpus prohibit the federal court from returning a filing fees. 2. does the Fed.R.Giv.P. Rule 60(c)(1) violate petitioner's fifth and fourteenth amendment right to the return of his filing fees. ; 3. does petitioner's have a constitutional right to move the court for the return of his filing fee, that was obtain under a pretience of a court order. 4. does rule 60 (c)(1) create a statute of limitation that violate petitioners right to the return of a filing fee that was illegally received through an order of the court, 5. does the court Have jurisdiction to with hold petitioners money through rule 60 (c)(1) for failure to discover this courts taking money through an order that would have at that ¢77@ . been considered illegal, if brought to the court's attention. "

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-11-25
Waiver of right of respondent Coyne-Fague, Acting Dir., RI DOC to respond filed.
2019-11-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 18, 2019)

Attorneys

Christopher Thornton
Christopher Thornton — Petitioner
Coyne-Fague, Acting Dir., RI DOC
Christopher Robinson BushRhode Island Department of the Attorney General, Respondent