indigent-plaintiff
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6012 | Julia Dixon v. Medhost Dispatcher, et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-11-03 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-plaintiff medical-malpractice | 1. Whether requiring an indigent, self-represented plaintiff to post a mandatory medical tribunal bond as a condition for access to a malpractice tria… |
| 23-6010 | James Woo v. Jose Angel Baez, et al. | Colorado | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-review civil-rights colorado-statute constitutional-challenge due-process expert-review expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff negligence-claims professional-conduct standing | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in holding that the certificate of review requirement pursuant to Colorado Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 13-2… |
| 23-5548 | Christian R. Aguirre-Hodge v. Charles E. Larson | Seventh Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights counsel-recruitment due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation recruitment-of-counsel standing visual-impairment | If an indigent plaintiff has made a reasonable attempt to obtain counsel and then files a motion for recruitment of counsel pursuant to the in forma p… |
| 22-5171 | Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal | 1. Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court mer… |
| 21-8061 | Barbrie Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discrimination-claim due-process eeoc-exhaustion employment federal-courts indigent-plaintiff legal-representation pro-se summary-judgment title-vii | In a Title VII action between an indigent pro se complainant and private sector employer, who, if anyone, has the responsibility of informing the comp… |
| 21-7208 | Theresa Bailey v. New York Law School, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process indigent-plaintiff judicial-review pro-bono-counsel procedural-errors standing title-ix | [This Court and circuits have agreed: plaintiffs demonstrated triable issues for a jury on review of similar facts and issues under Title IX, See Davi… |
| 20-7817 | In Re Johnny Ray Bennett | 2021-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process gonzalez-precedent gonzalez-vs-crosby indigent-plaintiff judgment judgment-reopening legal-standing multi-defendant-litigation standing | SHOULD AN INDIGENT PLAINTIFF THAT'S SUING THREE DEFENDANTS BE PERMITTED TO REOPEN HIS JUDGMENT IF HE POSSESS THE TWO COMPONENTS OF GONZALEZ VS. CROSBY… | |
| 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 | 1) Can the U.S. Court of Federal Claims compel an indigent Title VII Plaintiff to pay a filing fee at the time when the Plaintiff doesn 't have money … |
| 18-8633 | James Greene v. Walgreen Eastern Co., Inc. | First Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights data discovery discrimination disparate-impact due-process expert-testimony indigent-plaintiff standing statistical-significance statistics | Whether the First Circuit Court erred when it affirmed the District Court's denial of an indigent plaintiff's (Greene's) motion to provide and pay for… |
| 18-5451 | Charles M. Steele v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-access due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff judicial-discretion prisoner-rights sua-sponte-dismissal | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in sua sponte dismissing the plaintiff's appeal for non-payment of filing fees when the plaintiff lac… |