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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6764 Albert Johnson v. United States First Circuit 2025-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP assets employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty Question not identified.
24-6280 Margaly Philippe v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Trustee Massachusetts 2025-01-13 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP assets employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty Question not identified.
23-7264 Samreen Riaz v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. California 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure declaration employment-history financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-declaration legal-redress poverty redress Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
23-6326 In Re Luis Fernando Isaza Arango 2023-12-21 Denied IFP affidavit assets civil-procedure declaration employment financial-information financial-status in-forma-pauperis income poverty Whether the petitioner's inability to pay the costs of this case or provide security therefor, as stated in the affidavit or declaration, entitles the…
23-5763 In Re Darryl C. Daniels 2023-10-11 Denied IFP affidavit civil-rights due-process expense-reporting financial-declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-verification legal-redress poverty standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
23-5721 In Re Terrance A. McCauley 2023-10-05 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-declaration legal-support poverty poverty-affidavit redress Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-6294 Keith Strom v. Douglas Mitchell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP child-support due-process family-law parent-child-relationships parental-rights poverty state-intervention state-involvement welfare-interests Should the State be allowed to impose child support payments that result in unavoidable poverty and severely damaged child-parent relationships?
22-6176 Cheryl A. Wolf, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Second Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis poverty Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis satisfies the legal requirements
22-6080 James David Wren v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit civil-procedure declaration financial-status in-forma-pauperis poverty Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
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
22-5136 Francette Washington v. Virginia Rodriguez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP assets civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
22-5051 Gabriel M. Robles, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process energy-assistance equal-protection in-forma-pauperis low-income-assistance poverty poverty-level Have the Courts enacted 'Rules' and Congress made laws that serve to deprive the poor and needy, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled, their …
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
21-8157 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure costs declaration poverty redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
21-6633 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic Oregon 2021-12-16 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac…
21-6129 John Ragin v. Supreme Court of Virginia Virginia 2021-11-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure costs court-filing declaration financial-assets in-forma-pauperis income-disclosure legal-support monthly-expenses poverty Whether the petitioner's affidavit or declaration in support of a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is sufficient to establish their inabi…
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
20-8348 Christopher Hawkins v. California California 2021-06-21 Denied IFP assets-and-liabilities civil-procedure financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis poverty redress Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
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
20-7358 Mariann Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-08 Denied IFP access-to-courts assets civil-rights due-process employment expenses in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of her motion 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…
20-6830 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 …
20-6104 Jacqueline Pidanick v. Paul C. LaRosa, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit child-custody civil-procedure court-fraud declaration due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-review Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis
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
19-8471 Eddie Gene Vaughn v. Timothy Hawkins, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process equal-protection excessive-force poverty prisoner-rights standing Whether correctional staff are free to physically beat prisoners due to their appearance and demeanor of illiteracy and/or being too poor to employ ci…
19-8454 Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
19-8214 Howard Atkins v. Georgia Crowell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his motion to proceed in forma pauperis without considering h…
19-6669 Donnie Berry v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-or-declaration appeals civil-rights costs due-process habeas in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty redress security sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
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
19-169 Jane Doe v. Iowa Iowa 2019-08-08 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty Whether Iowa violates the Equal Protection Clause by denying expungement to people who have not been convicted of any offense, solely because they are…
19-5453 Juan Pablo Revelo Salcedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance judicial-access motion motion-to-substitute-counsel poverty poverty-affidavit pro-se-litigation redress right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel when a defendant expresses dissatisfactio…
19-5184 Kristopher Courtney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Kristopher Courtney's motion to vacate his sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
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…
18-9157 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
18-8907 In Re Samuel H. Williams 2019-04-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights declaration due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis incorporation poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
18-8721 Kelvin Reed v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts equal-protection error-coram-nobis poverty racial-discrimination Does Tennessee's Error Coram Nobis procedure discriminate against blacks and the poor, violating their constitutional rights?
18-7328 Anthony Sheely, et ux. v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied IFP affidavit civil-procedure compensation costs court-access declaration due-process fifth-amendment financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure legal-filing poverty poverty-exemption private-property regulatory-burden takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires compensation when the government imposes a regulatory burden on private property that does …
18-7216 Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-7198 Julio Cruz v. David Hallenbeck, Superintendent, Hale Creek Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaration due-process excessive-fines habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis incorporation ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief poverty redress Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in jail…
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
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a new trial when counsel's deficient performance prejudiced the defendan…
18-6153 Tonya Lynn Raisbeck v. Anthony Stewart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment assets assets-liabilities civil-rights due-process excessive-fines expenses financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income incorporation monthly-expenses monthly-income poverty poverty-affidavit support Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment