indigent-litigant

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A791 Antonio Sauceda Reyes v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-01-08 Application court-access due-process first-amendment indigent-litigant legal-resources prisoner-access Whether prison conditions and resource limitations constitute an unconstitutional burden on an indigent prisoner's right of meaningful access to the c…
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits dismissal of a pro se civil rights action based on procedural deficiencies when the plaintiff is an indigent …
24-5352 Spencer Farwell v. Fountains at Tidwell Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant judicial-recommendation Whether the District Court's adoption of the Magistrate Judge's recommendation without party consent violates due process rights, and whether denial o…
24-5165 Leonard W. Houston, as Beneficiary of Estate of Luis Houston Sr., Deceased v. Highland Care Center, Inc., Skilled Nursing Home Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process federal-court-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant judicial-screening nursing-home pro-se-litigation resident-rights standing in-forma-pauperis
22-5764 Lynn Richard Norton v. David Barker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-costs criminal-procedure due-process indigent-litigant malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations wrongful-conviction Whether the law suit has been wrongly dismissed under Tennessee Code Section 18-1106 State of Limitation, when filed two years later of the incident, …
22-264 Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, et al. California 2022-09-20 Denied civil-procedure court-discretion deposition-procedure discovery due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant litigation-costs remote-deposition remote-testimony Whether a court can order an indigent litigant granted in forma pauperis to conduct deposition by remote means that is discretionary and more costly t…
20-6830 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-12 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-waiver indigent-litigant judicial-procedure poverty Whether denying the petitioner a panel of three judges because he was too poor to pay the fees was in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment …
20-5671 Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission Michigan 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights Is Michigan's statute, MCL 600.2963(8) unconstitutional on its face and/or as applied to this petitioner, as violating the right of access to courts a…
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…
18-6998 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-12-11 Denied IFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith civil-appeal civil-rights court-of-appeals direct-appeal docket-fee docket-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-litigant indigent-litigants pro-se-litigation south-carolina Whether Bounds v. Smith 430 U.S. 817 97 S.Ct. 1491 (1977) requires the waiver of the docket fee in a civil on direct appeal to Indigent litigants who …
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…