Does the "mailbox rule" apply to the date in which a prisoner sends a document to the court for mailing?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Saechao v. Fox, No. 2:18-cv-1662 KJM DB P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
2. Pursuant to the "mailbox rule," prisoners are deemed to have filed documents with the court on the date they gave them to prison authorities for mailing. See Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 270 (1988). All of petitioner's filings have been given the benefit of the mailbox rule.
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