frivolous-dismissal
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A722 | Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process frivolous-dismissal pro-se-litigant section-1915 | Whether a federal appellate court can summarily dismiss a pro se civil rights appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) without providing meani… | |
| 24-7455 | Garland E. Williams v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a federal statute precludes procedural redress of a timely invoked constitutional injury, and whether a district court's dismissal of a compla… |
| 23A799 | Raul Mendez v. Moonridge Neighborhood Assocociation, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure due-process frivolous-dismissal judicial-discretion ninth-circuit pro-se-appeal | Whether the Ninth Circuit violated due process by dismissing a pro se appeal as frivolous without providing legal reasoning or analysis, and whether s… | |
| 23A377 | Anthony Andrews v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | appellate-procedure frivolous-dismissal imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act serious-physical-injury | Whether a prisoner with three prior frivolous dismissals can proceed in forma pauperis under the Prison Litigation Reform Act without demonstrating im… | |
| 21-7805 | William Paul Burch v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant removal sanctions | What is the complete legal definition of frivolous? |
| 21-924 | Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping | Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain… |