| 25-6515 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Marcus Bach Armas, Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami Dade County, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-appeal procedural-fairness |
Did the lower court wrongly dismiss Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a result of… |
| 25A780 |
Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc. |
Hawaii |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
|
extension-request hawaii-probate-court indigency pro-se trust-property writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6450 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
14th-amendment court-access due-process indigency legal-proceedings procedural-rights |
Did the lower Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a resul… |
| 25-6338 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process indigency legal-standing |
Did the lower court wrongly dismiss that the Petitioner's appeal because it effectively prevented the Petitioner from having access to the Court as a … |
| 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… |
| 23-5530 |
Matthew Jones v. Maine State Police Troop E |
Maine |
2023-09-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure court-fees due-process fee-waiver indigency indigent-status judicial-access legal-standing procedural-rights standing |
Who qualifies for fee waivers in the United States Court system? |
| 20-7466 |
Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bill-of-costs civil-procedure cost-waiver costs court-discretion deposition-costs indigency local-rules waiver |
Whether a party waives costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules? |
| 19-8056 |
Brian Alan Matalka v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review |
Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros… |
| 19-8052 |
Mohamed A. Almahmmody v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
the legal issue being raised appears to be: appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant pro-bono-representation right-to-counsel transcript trial-transcript |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to appoint counsel for his appeal despite finding him indigen… |
| 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 |
| 19-6271 |
Gary Patrick Lewis v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-of-indigency appointed-counsel arson-conviction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant michigan-court right-to-counsel state-appellate-defender state-court-appeal |
Gary Patrick Lewis |
| 19-5328 |
Lyle R. Harrison v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-subsidies indigency judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial state-jurisdiction usda-fsa-subsidies |
Whether due process allows the Illinois Courts jurisdiction over federal farm USDA/FSA subsidies, or federal courts jurisdiction over federal farm USD… |
| 18-9813 |
Levar Brown v. California |
California |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Did the Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying the right of the petitioners to discovery further and to rebut a conspiracy which infringes thei… |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether district courts can consider future earning capacity in determining whether a person is 'non-indigent' for the purposes of assessing the $5000… |
| 18-901 |
Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual suffi… |