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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6112 | Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act | Whether the 05th Circuit Court of Appeals and Travis County District Clerk's Office abused their discretion in filing and fee requirements for a crimi… |
| 25-457 | Topaz Johnson, et al. v. High Desert State Prison, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Pending | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | civil-procedure court-fees filing-fee in-forma-pauperis incarcerated-plaintiff statutory-interpretation | Does 28 U.S.C. § 1915(b)(1) require each incarcerated plaintiff filing in forma pauperis to pay the full amount of a filing fee whether or not he is f… |
| 25-5615 | Shahram Shakouri v. Scott Becker, former Judge, 219th Judicial District Court of Texas, Collin County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process filing-fee fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceeding poverty-exception | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a poverty-stricken Petitioner's motion for extension of time to pay the filing fee, thereby denying meaning… |
| 24-7207 | In Re Willie C. Simpson | 2025-05-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights filing-fee habeas-corpus state-custody supremacy-clause suspension-clause | Whether the state's suspension of habeas corpus privileges by imposing a $1,800 filing bar fee violates the U.S. Constitution's Suspension Clause and … | |
| 24-6498 | In Re Thomas Sawyer | 2025-02-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court filing-fee judicial-review mandamus-relief procedural-rules | Whether the 7th Circuit improperly denied a second appellate filing fee and mandamus relief for a petitioner seeking to challenge a lower court's ruli… | |
| 24A60 | Keith Edmund Gavin v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-07-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure death-row filing-fee in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion | Whether a death row inmate's in forma pauperis application can be denied based on having received monthly inmate deposits that exceed the filing fee t… | |
| 23-7095 | Jerico Matias Cruz v. Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential disposition order with a citatio… |
| 23A857 | Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Presumed Complete | appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly dismissed a pro se prisoner's appeal for want of prosecution without providing adequate notice o… | |
| 23A813 | Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington | First Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default | Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file an appellate brief and pay filing fees warrants dismissal of an appeal under First Circuit procedur… | |
| 22-6406 | William James Truesdale v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-filing-fee certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit filing-fee habeas-corpus pro-se-petition standing | Whether petitioner Truesdale owes the District Court Clerk the docketing and filing fee in order to obtain a Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-6196 | Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing | Whether the TN U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's ex-post-facto-claim |
| 22-5841 | Harry Sharod James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States District Court of North Carolina, Eastern District abuse its discr… |
| 22-5311 | Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. | South Carolina | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing | Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction? |
| 21-7796 | Ryan Stephen Ehrenreich v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | IFP | ballot-access candidate-certification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-law elections filing-fee filing-fees free-speech notarization write-in-voting | Whether the State of California may condition the reporting of the results of write-in voting on the State's 'candidate certification' requirement tha… |
| 20-5581 | Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | case-dismissal civil-rights court-of-federal-claims due-process filing-fee indigent indigent-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing title-vii | Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII plaintiff to pay a filing fee when the plaintiff doesn't have money and is financial… |
| 19-7995 | Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Magoon Estates Limited, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts article-3-court civil-procedure district-court due-process filing-fee in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights related-cases standing | Did the federal article 3 court or United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, in Honolulu err/error or breach its own order failing to a… |
| 19-5249 | George E. Kersey v. Herb Chambers 1186, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Dismissed | IFP | appeal appeals civil-procedure complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals district-court due-process filing-fee frivolous in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation sanctions screening standing | Whether the Court of Appeals properly affirmed the District Court's certification that the appeal was not taken in good faith |
| 23A1084 | Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. | Florida | Presumed Complete | court-accommodation document-preparation filing-fee incarceration pauper-petition pro-se | Whether a pro se prisoner can seek reconsideration of a pauper's petition and request alternative document preparation accommodations due to incarcera… |