indigent-status

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A771 Montaz Lee Kennedy v. Samuel Fields, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-05 Application housing-instability indigent-status petition-filing pro-se supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24A60 Keith Edmund Gavin v. Alabama Alabama 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure death-row filing-fee in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion Whether a death row inmate's in forma pauperis application can be denied based on having received monthly inmate deposits that exceed the filing fee t…
23-7837 Fidel Alcantar Soto v. Rual Morales, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-declaration civil-procedure court-fees financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-sources indigent-status legal-proceeding monthly-expenses poverty-affidavit prisoner-rights Question not identified
23A961 John W. Patton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-26 Presumed Complete civil-procedure court-costs in-forma-pauperis indigent-status prisoner-litigation pro-se Whether a pro se prisoner's in forma pauperis application satisfies the legal standard for proceeding without prepayment of court costs in federal cou…
23A934 Damien Ford v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-04-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus indigent-status procedural-error successive-petition supreme-court-rules Whether the Supreme Court should grant a certificate of appealability for a second successive habeas corpus petition when the petitioner claims indige…
23-6698 Reginald Harris v. FNU Watson, Hillsboro Police Officer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process indigent-status mental-health mental-health-commitment prisoner-litigation section-1983-claim standing Whether I.F.P., on-duty Department of unlawful unwarranted mental health committment civil claim, should be afforded appointment of counsel, to avoid …
23-6052 Larry Bailey v. West Laurel Water Association, et al. Kentucky 2023-11-17 Denied IFP appeal circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status notice-of-appeal standing Whether the Franklin Circuit Court violated my constitutional rights to due process
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?
22-5366 William Michael Fields, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-access financial-affidavit financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis indigent-status poverty pro-se-litigation redress standing waiver-of-fees Ability to Proceed In Forma Pauperis
21-8266 Timothy Wayne Calhoun v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure court-filing declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-proceeding poverty prisoner-rights Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion to proceed in forma pauperis satisfies the legal requirements
21-8248 Lorenzo Newborn, Karl Darnell Holmes, and Herbert McClain v. California California 2022-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointed-counsel court-appointment criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendant indigent-status right-to-counsel supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Whether petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
21-8077 Duane Yates v. Iowa Iowa 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-review due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause governor-executive-order indigent-status iowa-corrections iowa-department-of-corrections restitution sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the Iowa Courts have unlawfully determined the restitution that Duane Yates was ordered to pay
21-5654 Michael Ortega, aka Salvador Amitcar Herrero Flores v. Oregon Oregon 2021-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-access declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty redress Question not identified
21-5508 Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's imposition of a 2-year ban on Petitioner from filing any civil actions in the district court, and the denial of Petitione…
20-7712 Gwendolyn Singleton v. Orangeburg County Disabilities Special Needs Board Fourth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion poverty standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
20-7211 In Re Jeremy L. Dale 2021-02-23 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees declaration financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-procedure poverty redress Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is sufficient to establish poverty and e…
20-7094 Kenneth Ray Sheffey v. Iowa Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal a…
19-8641 Samir Hanna v. California California 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-fees poverty pro-se-litigation redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
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…
19-6057 Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the imposition of life sentences on juvenile offenders convicted …
19-5925 Kavin Maurice Rhodes v. Peter C. Swarth, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets civil-procedure civil-rights court-fees due-process excessive-fines financial-disclosure financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis incorporation indigent-status liabilities poverty pro-se-petition standing Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5402 Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason Washington 2019-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-5014 Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint substitute counsel when a defendant expresses dissati…
18-9361 Jordan Alexander Clemons v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-05-21 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-procedure civil-rights court-access criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-proportionality in-forma-pauperis indigence indigent-status juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing legal-representation life-imprisonment pro-bono Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime committ…
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
18-8506 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
18-7064 Thomas W. Mackenzie v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis incarceration indigent-status legal-materials legal-proceeding poverty prison-law-library redress Whether the Florida Department of Corrections violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying him access to the courts and legal materials