litigation-expenses

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
19-504	Kara Bowes v. Christina Melito, et al.	Second Circuit	2019-10-18	Denied	Response Waived	attorney-fees central-r-&-banking-co-v-pettus class-action common-fund incentive-awards litigation-expenses precedent precedential-force representative-plaintiffs trustees-v-greenough	Do the holdings of Greenough and Pettus, which prohibit payments in common-fund cases to compensate representative plaintiffs for their service to the…
18-9157	Israel Arce v. Chicago Transit Authority	Seventh Circuit	2019-05-06	Denied	IFP	affidavit civil-rights costs court-fees declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines financial-hardship fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis income-limitation incorporation litigation-expenses poverty redress social-security	Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause