indigent
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A646 | Albert Whitney Coburn v. Lara Brooke Seefeldt | Washington | 2025-12-03 | Application | constitutional-issues indigent legal-extension petition-for-certiorari pro-se supreme-court | Whether a pro se, indigent litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a Supreme Court petition for writ of certiorari based on the complexit… | |
| 24A641 | Jose Guillermo Mendez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Presumed Complete | certiorari indigent legal-resources prison-restrictions pro-se time-extension | Whether a pro se indigent prisoner's limited access to legal resources and prison mail restrictions constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifyin… | |
| 23A911 | George Leslie Vontress v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Presumed Complete | indigent legal-research pro-se supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari | Whether an indigent pro se litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to limited access to legal research resources | |
| 23-6548 | Andrew Joseph Avitable, aka Andrew Joseph Larson v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-breach due-process equal-protection forma-pauperis indigent judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation state-law-interpretation | Can a State create policies, rules, and/or laws that contradict the State's and US Constitutions; and create a situation in which only those with the … |
| 23A670 | Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Director, Haskins House State Wide Transitional Re-Entry Program | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | certiorari extension-of-time incarcerated indigent ninth-circuit pro-se | Whether a pro se, indigent, incarcerated litigant is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari when seeking appointed counsel… | |
| 23-6163 | Vidala Aaronoff v. Curtis Olson | California | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-fees civil-harassment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se pro-se-litigant | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a court to construe a pro se litigant's filings liberally in order to enable the litigant to participate as fu… |
| 23-5557 | Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. | Delaware | 2023-09-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner | When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in… |
| 23-5237 | Jordan Cole Laws v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30… |
| 21-7550 | Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal | Oregon | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions | Is it a violation of due-process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no relevan… |
| 21-5206 | S. J., Mother of A. C. and A. W., Each a Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel civil-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-representation meaningful-review parental-rights | Whether an indigent Mother whose parental rights are terminated is denied equal protection and due process of law |
| 20-8050 | Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel | Florida | 2021-05-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers | Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the 5th… |
| 20-7660 | In Re Justin Paul Sulzner | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent injunctive-relief mentally-disabled pro-se standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the 8th Cir. Appellate Court should have used 'special care' when dealing with a mentally disabled, indigent, pro se Plaintiff under 28 U.S.C.… | |
| 20-5581 | Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | case-dismissal civil-rights court-of-federal-claims due-process filing-fee indigent indigent-plaintiff procedural-due-process standing title-vii | Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII plaintiff to pay a filing fee when the plaintiff doesn't have money and is financial… |
| 19-6734 | Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez | California | 2019-11-22 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing | Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D… |
| 19-6080 | Marcus H. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion | Was the indigent petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to have appointed counsel represent him at his criminal jury trial violated when the trial court f… |
| 18-9786 | Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services | Texas | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty | Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of… |
| 18-8723 | Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-04-08 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a person with severe mental illness |
| 18-8555 | Randal Floyd v. Michael Johnson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees deliberate-indifference due-process fraud indigent indigent-appeal prisoner-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-access-to-cou | Whether a prisoner as plaintiff still has standing on a deliberate indifference claim when the defendant by fraud defaults their obligation to forward… |
| 18-8506 | Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step | Whether petitioner was deprived of the right to counsel |
| 18-8172 | Corinthian Bostic v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest due-process fifth-amendment indigent indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance motion-to-withdraw pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-motion right-to-appeal | Did the pre-trial judge abuse its discretion by denying Bostic's appointed attorney's motion to withdraw where Bostic and his trial counsel had a conf… |
| 18-7203 | Francisco Salazar v. Texas | Texas | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-record-on-appeal free-transcript in-forma-pauperis indigent standing trial-court-order | Whether the trial court erred in denying Francisco Salazar's motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 18-6658 | Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Alabama | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing | Whether a State may arbitrarily deny an indigent pro se prisoner effective and meaningful access to the courts? |
| 18-5946 | William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript | Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him… |