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 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…