indigency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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 Denied 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 Denied 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 …
25-6258 Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. Massachusetts 2025-12-01 Denied IFP access-to-justice arbitration due-process economic-status federal-arbitration-act indigency X. Are an individual's constitutional due process rights violated when lower courts or arbitrators decline to hold an evidentiary hearing to review an…
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 Question not identified.
23-5530 Matthew Jones v. Maine State Police Troop E Maine 2023-09-06 Denied 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 1. Whether a party wavies costs if it does not file a bill of cost on time pursuant to local rules? 2. Whether a district court should consider a par…
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 Question not identified.
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 THE DISTRICT COURT IS DENYING AN INDIGENT CIVIL DETAINEE (PRE TRIAL DETAINEE'') FOR SEVEN YEARS (JUNE 26,2012) FROM ACCESSING THE COURT WHEN P…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50…
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 1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factualsuf…