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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A1082 Christopher J. Rahaim v. Nancy M. Ley, former Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete access-to-courts due-process filing-fees judicial-review pro-se procedural-rules Whether a pro se litigant's failure to pay filing fees and comply with procedural rules constitutes an unconstitutional deprivation of access to court…
24-6707 Eddie Turner v. Department of Justice, Office of Administration, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts filing-fees judicial-review mandamus procedural-technicalities sovereign-immunity Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court improperly dismissed a petition for mandamus based on sovereign immunity and procedural technical…
24A30 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status and appellate filing fees violates a pro se litigant's constitutional right to meaningful access to the…
23-7383 Kenric Ledbetter, et al. v. Religious Practice Committee, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees legal-document petition prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires per-plaintiff filing fees in a multi-plaintiff lawsuit
23A534 Jay Hymas, dba Dosmen Farms v. Department of Interior Ninth Circuit 2023-12-12 Presumed Complete civil-litigation court-fees filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(1) permits district courts to impose partial filing fees on non-prisoner civil litigants or requires complete fee waiver
23-5883 Shardaye Jeacole Malik Bey v. Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1443 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-procedure criminal-removal due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis Whether filing fees are required for removal of a criminal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443
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…
21-7535 Antonio Alejandro Gutierrez v. Steve Shelton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1915 bruce-v-samuels civil-procedure due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Question Presented
20-1734 Waseem Daker v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees intervention joinder prison-litigation-reform-act section-1983 standing Whether the Prison Litigation Reform Act requires each prisoner filing a lawsuit to pay a separate filing fee
20-6489 Mario Allan Montano v. Ivy Alice Wimmer Michigan 2020-12-01 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts case-dismissal constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection filing-fees jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing three orders dismissing the Petitioner's cases thus depriving the Petitioner o…
19-8840 Darnell Cooper v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion partial-filing-fee prison-litigation-reform-act standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by being required to pay a partial filing fee to appeal his civil rights case, when…
19-7901 Thomas Powers v. Travis Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing access-to-courts civil-rights detention due-process filing-fees indigency Whether an indigent civil detainee is denied access to the court due to inability to pay filing fees
19-6666 Christopher Thornton v. Patricia Anne Coyne-Fague, Director, Rhode Island Department of Corrections First Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-court filing-fees habeas-corpus return-of-fees rule-60 Does the filing of a State prisoner writ of habeas corpus prohibit the federal court from returning a filing fees?
19-164 David Samarripa, et al. v. Gregory Kizziah, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs due-process federal-courts filing-fees habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts have the authority to impose partial filing fees on habeas petitioners
18-1303 Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell California 2019-04-15 Denied appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa…
18-8723 Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-04-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness
18-8461 Arther Lee Williamson v. Tyrie W. Boyer, Judge, Circuit Court of Florida, 4th Judicial Circuit Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals ACCA/Appellant failed to properly review the District Court's decision to deny the Appellant further leave to amend …
18-8180 William N. Lucy, Personal Representative of Annie D. Fox, Deceased v. Dialysis Associates, et al. Alabama 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alabama-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights double-county-circuit-court due-process equal-access-to-justice-act filing-fees in-forma-pauperis standing Whether the National Supremacy Clause prohibited the Alabama Supreme Court from holding that petitioners were not entitled to proceed in forma pauperi…
18-5451 Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac…
24A547 Frank Deville v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation District of Columbia Presumed Complete appellate-procedure filing-fees in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se petitioner's failure to strictly comply with Supreme Court filing procedures and fee requirements constitutes grounds for dismissal o…