U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Larry Harrison v. Douglas
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Raymond M. Kethledge
- Filed
- May 20, 2026
- Case
- Larry Harrison v. Douglas
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 26a0221n.06 No. 25-1897 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT May 20, 2026 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) LARRY HARRISON, ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT ) COURT FOR THE WESTERN ) COUNSELOR DOUGLAS, DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN ) Defendant-Appellee. ) OPINION ) ) Before: KETHLEDGE, WHITE, and LARSEN, Circuit Judges. KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. Larry Harrison brought a First Amendment retaliation suit against a prison staff member, but did not pay the filing fee. The district court denied Harrison’s motion for leave to pay the fee in installments, finding that he had filed three prior lawsuits that had each been dismissed for failure to state a claim. We hold that two of those lawsuits were not dismissed for failure to state a claim, so we reverse. I. A. Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a prisoner who proceeds in forma pauperis need not pay the district court’s filing fee up front; instead, he may pay the fee in monthly installments. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)-(b). But a prisoner generally cannot do that if he has accrued three “strikes” under section 1915(g). A prisoner accrues a strike wh…
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