Supreme Court of the United States
Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez
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- Type
- Opinion of the Court
- Author
- Elena Kagan
- Filed
- June 8, 2020
- Case
- Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez
- Case status
- Decided
- Joined by
- John G. Roberts Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Gerald Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Sonia Sotomayor, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch
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Justice KAGAN delivered the opinion of the Court. * *1723 To help staunch a "flood of nonmeritorious" prisoner litigation, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA) established what has become known as the three-strikes rule…
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