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e @ FILED dU 01988 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EYVON MENDENHALL EASTERN DIVISION ~ U. S. DISTRICT COURT E, DISTRICT OF MO. IN RE: ) ) SYLVESTER JONES ) ORDER OF COURT EN BANC This matter is before the Court en bane on its own motion. In 1986, 1987, and 1988 (to date), Sylvester Jones has filed fourteen civil rights complaints in the Eastern District of Missouri: Jones v. Hadican, et al., No. 86-1251C(3); Jones v. Community Federal Savings and Loan Asin, et al., No. 86-1494C(4); Jones v. First American Title Ins. Co., et al., No. 86-1495C(5); Jones v. Howard, et al., No. &- 1496C(2); Jones v. United States Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al., No. 86-1497 C(4); Jones v. Howard, et al., No. 86-1593C(6); Jones v. Davey, et al., No. 87-25C(2); Jones v. City of St. Louis, et al., No. 87-884C(1); Jones v. City of St. Louis, et al., No. 87- 2079C(3); Jones v. City of St. Louis, et al., No. 88-255C(1); Jones v. U.S. Department of Justice, et_al., No. 88-370C(5); Jones v. Bryant, et_al., No. 88-680C(3); Jones v. United States, et al., No. 88-797C(6); and Jones v. Oitker, et al., No. 88-945C(1). All of these ? complaints have been filed pro se and in forma pauperis. All of these complaints name a many defendants (sometimes in excess of 60 individuals) and are very long (sometimes in excess of 50 pages). Ten of these complaints have been dismissed, most of them as frivolous before process issued: No. 86-1251C(3); No. 86-149 4C(4)i No. 86-1495C(5); No. 86-1496C(2); No. 86-1593C(6); No. 87-884C(1); No. 87-2079C(3); No. 88-255C(1); No. 88- 370C(5); and No. 88-945C(1). Four of them are still pending: No. 86-1497C(4); No, 87- 25C(2); No. 88-680C(3); and No. 88-797 C(6). Upon review of these fourteen complaints, this Court en banc expressly finds that Sylvester Jones has abused the judicial process and has abused his right to file complaints in forma pauperis "by filing a multitude of meritless lawsuits, and that this course of conduct will likely continue unabated unless preventive measures are imposed." In re: Billy Roy Tyler, 839 F.2d 1290, 1295 (8th Cir. 1988); see Green _v. White, 616 F.2d 1054 (8th Cir. 1980), Therefore, in order to ensure the integrity of the judicial process and in order to prevent Sylvester Jones from further abusing his right to file complaints in forma pauperis, this Court en banc hereby adopts the following measure: ; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court be and hereby. is directed not to accept complaints for filing in forma pauperis by Sylvester Jones unless the complaints allege in clear and specific language that Sylvester Jones has recently been subjected to a constitutional deprivation by reason of an extraordinary and irreparable physical harm or that Sylvester Jones is about to be subjected to a constitutional deprivation by reason of the threat of an immediate, extraordinary, and APPENDIX=&