No. 20-7478

Paul Eric Lewis v. Southern Connecticut State University, et al.

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2021-03-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure pro-bono-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2021-05-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the plaintiff's right to counsel was violated, resulting in a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to bring suit in a court of law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented Where a plaintiff who was granted pro bono counsel, specifically for the purpose “to write the preliminary pleadings sufficiently to allow a jury trial,” is defeated in pre-trial argument due to the refusal by the same Judge Thompson to substitute another pro bono attorney when the original pro bono attorney was forced to resign, that this same Judge Thompson then ruled that plaintiffs claim was ; “insufficiently stated to allow a jury trial,” is there not, therein, a right to counsel : violated that also violates as a direct violation of the fourteenth amendment’s due process clause and the sixth amendment’s Constitutional right to bring suit in a court of law? . 2 . . ., I.

Docket Entries

2021-05-17
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
2021-03-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 16, 2021)

Attorneys

Paul Lewis
Paul Eric Lewis — Petitioner
Paul Eric Lewis — Petitioner