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28 U.S.C. § 1916 — Seamen’s suits
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In all courts of the United States, seamen may institute and prosecute suits and appeals in their own names and for their own benefit for wages or salvage or the enforcement of laws enacted for their health or safety without prepaying fees or costs or furnishing security therefor.
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In all courts of the United States, seamen may institute and prosecute suits and appeals in their own names and for their own benefit for wages or salvage or the enforcement of laws enacted for their health or safety without prepaying fees or costs or furnishing security therefor.
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**(a)**
(1) The United States marshals or deputy marshals shall routinely collect, and a court may tax as costs, fees for the following:
(A) Serving a writ of possession, partition, execution, attachment in rem, or libel in admiralty, warrant, attachment, summons, complaints, or any other writ, order or process in any case or proceeding.
(B) Serving a subpoena or summons for a witness or appraiser.
(C) Forwarding any writ, order, or process to another judicial district for service.
(D) The preparation of any notice of sale, proclamation in admiralty, or other public notice or bill of sale.
(E) The keeping of attached property (including boats, vessels, or other property attached or libeled), actual expenses incurred, such as storage, moving, boat hire, or other special transportation, watchmen’s or keepers’ fees, insurance, and an hourly rate, including overtime, for each deputy marshal required for special services, such as guarding, inventorying, and moving.
(F) Copies of writs or other papers furnished at the request of any party.
(G) Necessary travel in serving or endeavoring to serve any process, writ, or order, except in the District of Columbia, with mileage to be computed from the place where service is returnable to the place of service or endeavor.
(H) Overtime expenses incurred by deputy marshals in the course of serving or executing civil process.
(2) The marshals shall collect, in advance, a deposit to cover the initial expenses for special services required under paragraph (1)(E), and periodically thereafter such amounts as may be necessary to pay such expenses until the litigation is concluded. This paragraph applies to all private litigants, including seamen proceeding pursuant to [section 1916 of this title](https://uscode.hous
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 1919
peal, if such printing is required by the appellate court,
be paid by the United States, and the same shall be
paid when authorized by the Director of the Adminis-
trative Office of the United States Courts’’.
1959—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86–320 substituted ‘‘person’’
for ‘‘citizen’’.
1951—Subsec. (b). Act Oct. 31, 1951, struck out ‘‘fur-
nishing a stenographic transcript and’’ after ‘‘expense
of’’.
Subsec. (e). Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted provision that
the United States shall not be liable for any of the
costs incurred.
1949—Subsec. (b). Act May 24, 1949, § 98(a), inserted
‘‘such printing is’’ between ‘‘if’’ and ‘‘required’’.
Subsec. (e). Act May 24, 1949, § 98(b), inserted ‘‘or
printed record’’ after ‘‘stenographic transcript’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
‘‘United States magistrate judge’’ substituted for
‘‘United States magistrate’’ in subsec. (c) pursuant to
section 321 of Pub. L. 101–650, set out as a note under
section 631 of this title.
§ 1915A. Screening
(a) SCREENING.—The court shall review, before
docketing, if feasible or, in any event, as soon as
practicable after docketing, a complaint in a
civil action in which a prisoner seeks redress
from a governmental entity or officer or em-
ployee of a governmental entity.
(b) GROUNDS FOR DISMISSAL.—On review, the
court shall identify cognizable claims or dismiss
the complaint, or any portion of the complaint,
if the complaint—
(1) is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a
claim upon which relief may be granted; or
(2) seeks monetary relief from a defendant
who is immune from such relief.
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the
term ‘‘prisoner’’ means any person incarcerated
or detained in any
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