financial-hardship

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A604 Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Application financial-hardship indigency petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant supreme-court time-extension Whether an indigent prisoner seeking Supreme Court review may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari based on finan…
23A409 Jeffery Wooden v. Town of Eatonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Presumed Complete counsel deadline financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant's financial hardship constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari
23A387 Towaki Komatsu v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2023-10-30 Presumed Complete deadline-extension financial-hardship litigation-burden pro-se-litigant supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se litigant experiencing financial hardship and ongoing litigation can be granted an extension of time to file a petition for writ of ce…
21-5654 Michael Ortega, aka Salvador Amitcar Herrero Flores v. Oregon Oregon 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-access declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty redress Question not identified
20-7712 Gwendolyn Singleton v. Orangeburg County Disabilities Special Needs Board Fourth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
20-7211 In Re Jeremy L. Dale 2021-02-23 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-procedure poverty redress Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is sufficient to establish poverty and e…
19-5925 Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Peter C. Swarth, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees due-process excessive-fines financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis incorporation indigent-status liabilities poverty pro-se-petition standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5526 Frances W. Lake v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-procedure appeals civil-rights compassionate-release disability due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-prisoner financial-hardship first-step-act government-benefits medical-expenses sentence-reduction Whether the VA pension was properly denied after medical expenses were incurred, despite the widow's disability and financial hardship
18-9455 Scott William Dummert v. Renee Ngo Nevada 2019-05-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process expert-affidavit financial-hardship medical-expert medical-malpractice reasons-for-granting standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in dismissing petitioner's medical malpractice claim against respondent for lack of standing despite petitioner…
18-9157 Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-367 Mary E. Jacobi v. New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, et al. New York 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment driver's-license due-process financial-hardship property-interest tax-collection tax-law Whether New York Tax Law Section 171-v is unconstitutional by failing to provide meaningful due process and/or a financial hardship provision before s…
23A990 Elisha L. Gresham v. Martin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Social Security Eleventh Circuit Presumed Complete booklet-production extension-of-time filing-requirement financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court-rule Whether a pro se litigant's financial hardship warrants an extension of time to comply with Supreme Court Rule 33.1 regarding booklet production
25A474 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit Application disability filing-requirements financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant with limited income and disability can obtain an extension of time and partial relief from Supreme Court filing requirements…