VAUGHN

v.

TRUJILLO, SHERIFF, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (26 total)

• Taylor v. M. M. (Hoot) Gibson, 529 F.2d 709 (5th Cir. 1976)
  …s to determine whether a suit may be dismissed under Section 1915(d) as frivolous or malicious despite the complaint being facially adequate. Conway v. Oliver, 9 Cir. 1970, 429 F. 2d 1307; Williams v. Field, 9 Cir. 1968, 394 F. 2d 329, cert. denied, 393 U.S. 891, 89 S.Ct. 213, 21 L.Ed.2d 171; Irwin v. Burson, supra. A complaint conflicting with facts of which the district court may take judicial notice might also properly be dismissed under Section 1915(d). We have alluded in other decisions to the desirab…
• Franklin v. Ms. Murphy and Hoyt Cupp, 745 F.2d 1221 (9th Cir. 1984)
  …, as well as the existence of possible defenses ____” Franklin II, 563 F.Supp. at 1323-24. We reject this standard because it would give trial courts almost unreviewable discretion. See Williams v. Field, 394 F. 2d 329, 331 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 891, 89 S.Ct. 213, 21 L.Ed.2d 171 (1968) (rejecting definition of frivolity as slight chance of success on the merits). Most of the circuits that have addressed the issue have applied a modified form of the frivolity test from Anders v. California, 386…

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• United States v. Solis, 536 F.2d 880 (9th Cir. 1976)
  …cert. denied, 419 U.S. 897, 95 S.Ct. 176, 42 L.Ed.2d 141 (1974); United States v. Brown, 487 F. 2d 208 (4th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 909, 94 S.Ct. 1617, 40 L.Ed.2d 114 (1974); United States v. Lewis, 392 F. 2d 377 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 891, 89 S.Ct. 212, 21 L.Ed.2d 170 (1968); United States v. Gillet, 383 F. 2d 843 (2d Cir. 1967). Aids such as flashlights or binoculars raised no great problem and at one time the line between legal observation and illegal invasion was drawn at physica…