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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Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure common-law due-process filing-fee judicial-review non-precedential-order nonprecedential-disposition procedural-error standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and three Circuit Judges entered a nonprecedential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…