access-to-justice

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25-6434 Natasha T. Baskin v. Algernon M. Pitre District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Pending IFP access-to-justice disability-rights due-process emergency-tolling equal-protection pro-se-litigants 1. Due Process and Access to Courts Whether the combined effect of emergency tolling restrictions, denial of disability accommodations, and additiona…
25-6233 Rod Serp v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice case-dismissal federal-courts government-accountability judicial-review pro-se-litigation This case began in late 2023 in Central District Court. It was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Fisher to be refiled in Federal Claims Court. Judg…
25A597 Christopher Fonte v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-20 Application access-to-justice disability-barriers due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice-requirements Whether federal courts must apply equitable tolling principles when state notice statutes create procedural barriers for litigants with documented dis…
25-5794 Jasmine E. Golden v. Amazon North Carolina 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice civil-rights corporate-misconduct gatekeeper-order intellectual-property pro-se-litigation 1. Petitioner was denied appropriate justice and retribution for the intentional maligning of her brand name, GoldenPrints, LLC, and intellectual prop…
25-5662 Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for…
25-316 Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla Florida 2025-09-17 Rehearing Relisted (2) access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct 1. Whether a state court's denial of meaningful appellate review, based on the absence of a transcript that the court itself suppressed or failed t…
25-5016 General Parker v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigant rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations 1. Did the clerk's office's failure to file the petitioner's complaint and motion for an extension of time constitute a denial of access to the courts…
24-607 Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. California 2024-12-03 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Whether the appointment of a discovery referee without considering financial hardship and using an unfair selection process violates due process, equa…
24-5965 David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules Whether a judge can improperly restrict court filings and impede access to judicial process
24-5967 Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. California 2024-11-13 Denied IFP access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute Are the State of California courts at multiple levels violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection …
23-7070 Riley Thornock, et ux. v. Bedford County, Virginia Virginia 2024-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking Does the government's attempt to compel an individual out of their established residence or property warrant the appointment of a court-appointed atto…
23-576 Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing Is the right to due process being violated for pro se litigants?
23-5530 Matthew Jones v. Maine State Police Troop E Maine 2023-09-06 Dismissed IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure court-fees due-process fee-waiver indigency indigent-status judicial-access legal-standing procedural-rights standing Who qualifies for fee waivers in the United States Court system?
23-5007 Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 Should Plaintiffs/Parents filing a Federal Complaint through IDEA Section 504 or ADA, be accorded the right to counsel when filing pro se' and/or in f…
22-7786 Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. First Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure judicial-discretion legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Federal Court System?
22-956 Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District Texas 2023-03-31 Denied Response Waived access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to…
22-5932 Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased Arizona 2022-10-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights?
22-5905 Terrell Biggs, Jr. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Tennessee 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress equal-protection insurance-company standing systemic-misconduct Whether state appellate courts are unconstitutionally forcing plaintiffs to be subjected to systemic misconduct by a private corporation
22-5682 Jonathan F. Ramos v. Valmont Industries, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-justice americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation sign-language-interpretation standing workplace-accessibility Whether the denial of an ASL interpreter for a deaf individual in a legal proceeding violates the Americans with Disabilities Act
22-5578 Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank Ninth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review Whether a civil access-to-justice crisis exists
22-5171 Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court merely…
21-5893 In Re Sandra Black 2021-10-05 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism Whether a black person can be treated equally to white persons in terms of constitutional rights, privileges, benefits, and advantages, given the fact…
21-5698 Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit Does the petitioner have a right to 'free justice and open courts' without paying a fee to have their case heard in the Ninth Circuit?
21-228 Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. Tennessee 2021-08-17 Denied access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE STATUTE TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY SITUATED HEREIN AN OPPORT…
21-139 James W. Gilliam, II v. Discover Bank, et al. New York 2021-08-03 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-justice american-jurisprudence civil-rights constitutional-rights court-representation due-process fundamental-rights individual-immunity justice-system legal-access right-to-counsel Whether a citizen is entitled to their own day in court or be denied justice due to inability to afford a lawyer
21-85 Neil G. Leeds v. Hanmi Bank California 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights court-reporter due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing unruh-act Whether the lower court including the appeal court should have followed The California Supreme Court Ruling under Jameson v. Desta to provide a free c…
20-1450 Michael C. Murphy v. Melissa Ann Blalock, as Executrix of the Estate of Gloria Kay Murphy-Wallace Tennessee 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived access-to-justice civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process standing state-courts tennessee-rules Whether the Tennessee state trial and appellate courts are using a constitutionally vague procedural rule,Tenn.R.Civ. P. 59.04,to deny citizens an opp…
20-7376 Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism Where are the Justices, Honorable Seer, who is sentencing Petitioner denied an opportunity to present Petitioner's defense, failed to avail the Petiti…
20-7104 Vincent Lyle Badkin v. Lockheed Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement duty-of-fair-representation judicial-review labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act section-301 wrongful-termination Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in misquoting the plaintiff's complaint and incorrectly opining that the plaintiff alleged the union …
20-5477 Elvis Henry Idada v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery?
19-7181 Anna Bell v. Oregon Health & Science University Oregon 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial self-representation Does denying a pro se individual or public a proper course of justice by a Court violate prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings and The Ninth Amendment to t…
19-6536 Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case?
19-6022 Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction Whether Petitioner's 14th Amendment Rights were violated by denying him the opportunity to work in food service
18-9843 Freddie Lee Fountain v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant indigent-defense procedural-protections At what point does the absence of government protection breach the limits of constitutional boundary?
18-9309 Valentin Spataru v. Harmony Healing Center Florida 2019-05-17 Denied IFP access-to-justice appellate-rules civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-assistance legal-dismissal standing Whether a County or State Court may dismiss a complaint without due process
18-8598 Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing Should courts be required to uphold laws that protect underprivileged, federally protected classes?
18-8465 Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor Are Bankruptcy Judges dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause?
18-6684 Arika Matelyan v. Fox 11 Ninth Circuit 2018-11-15 Dismissed IFP access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection free-speech standing Why don't the highest courts in the land put a copy of it to the side when the older Black woman is not heard?
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-6219 Melissa May v. Continental Towers Condominiums Association, et al. Kentucky 2018-10-04 Denied IFP access-to-justice accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights court-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation self-representation standing Did the state of Kentucky not facilitate discrimination of Ms. May entirely, because of her disability?
18-6052 Mohsen Khoshmood v. Catholic Charity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-09-20 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights court-system discrimination due-process judicial-bias judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-system standing Whether the judicial system in the superior courts is completely corrupt, resulting in misjudgments or unjust judgments that undermine public trust in…