frivolous-claim

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-1024 Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied 28-usc-1915 amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-dismissal failure-to-state-a-claim frivolous frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis right-to-amend Whether the district court properly dismissed a civil action filed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) without first allowing the plaint…
22-5957 Calvin Kelsick Wilson v. Tampa Police Department Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-dismissal due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus prisoner-claim section-1983 standing statute-of-limitations Whether the petitioner can bring a claim against the government under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for an allegedly unconstitutional criminal prosecution, despite…
22-5390 Carina Conerly v. Julie G. Yap, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding petitioners' claim to be frivolous
21-1216 Yan Ping Xu v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment frivolous frivolous-claim privacy-invasion rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order warrantless-seizure Whether the appeal has been properly dismissed because it 'lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact' Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1…
19-7788 Ulises Corrales Vega v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process frivolous-claim habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-jurists split standing summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari Did the petitioner raise a substantial constitutional claim that was not so patently false or frivolous as to warrant summary dismissal?
19-7266 Mickie Stone v. Centene Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 11-usc-1915-e-2-b appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-complaint eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis standing statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the Court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying my motion for leave to proceed on appeal in forma pa…
19-7269 James Patton Robertson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process federal-law frivolous frivolous-claim judicial-review statute-of-limitations summary-disposition transactional-immunity Whether summary disposition is appropriate when considering a petition for writ of coram nobis
18-9611 Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th…