indigence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5218 Martin Akerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2024-08-02 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process financial-disadvantage first-amendment indigence judicial-review standing Question not identified
22-5287 Gregory Edwin Dunn v. County of Santa Cruz, California Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigence privileges-and-immunities self-representation Whether indigence should be deemed a suspect or quasi-suspect class
21-6852 Joedon Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP assets constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process employment-history felon-in-possession firearms in-forma-pauperis indigence monthly-income second-amendment support-obligations Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment
20-7846 Angel Ortiz v. Dennis Breslin, Superintendent, Queensboro Correctional Facility, et al. New York 2021-04-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homelessness housing-restrictions incarceration indigence liberty parole Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit prison authorities from indefinitely detaining supervisees based on an assumption that a municipality will not …
19-8305 Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost Whether Virginia's law mandating government to defray cost of trial transcript only for indigent felons, but not indigent misdemeanants, violates Equa…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…