the ultimate termination of litigation. See id. After it received case CV-57, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recertified plaintiffs’ petition for interlocutory appeal to the D.C. Circuit. In October 2000, the D.C. Circuit denied the petition for interlocutory appeal because the appeal in this case, CV-29, was still pending before this court. See Vogel v. U.S. Office Products Co., No. 00-7038, 2000 WL 1683498 (D.C.Cir. Oct.26, 2000). II. Bankruptcy Filing On March 5, 2001, USOP filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The filing of a voluntary bankruptcy petition operates as a stay on the “continuation ... of a judicial proceeding against the debtor.” See 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)(1). Therefore, t r.1990) (<HOLDING>). If a motion is dispositive, a magistrate
holding that a motion for rule 11 sanctions is dispositive holding in a case where a class was certified that there was an absence of collusion since the dismissal based on a string of adverse decisions which had drained the case of legal merit made the dismissal the functional equivalent of an involuntary dismissal holding that the financial responsibility provisions of the plra require a prisoner seeking leave to proceed in forma pauperis to file an affidavit listing his assets and to submit a certified copy of his inmate trust fund account statement or an institutional equivalent reflecting the sixmonth period immediately preceding the filing of the complaint even with regard to a case in which in forma pauperis status was granted prior to the effective date of the plra ie april 26 1996 holding that a motion to proceed in forma pauperis is dispositive because it is the functional equivalent of an involuntary dismissal holding that dismissal of a complaint pursuant to former  1915d now  1915e is not appropriate where a plaintiff has made a partial payment of filing fees and that in such cases the court must treat the complaint in the same manner as one for which in forma pauperis status has not been granted