pro-se-litigants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6434 Natasha T. Baskin v. Algernon M. Pitre District of Columbia 2025-12-29 Pending IFP access-to-justice disability-rights due-process emergency-tolling equal-protection pro-se-litigants 1. Due Process and Access to Courts Whether the combined effect of emergency tolling restrictions, denial of disability accommodations, and additiona…
25-593 Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. Florida 2025-11-20 Denied discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations 1. Does a state supreme court's practice of summarily denying discretionary review of Per Curium Affirmance (PCA), involving a Statute of Limitation d…
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p…
24-6311 Shariff Butler, et al. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias precedential-decisions pro-se-litigants supreme-court-review Whether judicial bias, potential bribery, and conflicts with precedential decisions constitute grounds for Supreme Court review of Court of Appeals pa…
24-69 Vishrut Amin, et al. v. Geico Indemnity Company, et al. Florida 2024-07-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery constitutional-rights discovery-process due-process judicial-authority pro-se-litigants unethical-practice Whether the trial court abused its judicial power in denying the motion to compel discovery and violated the constitutional rights of the petitioners …
23-1336 Noel West Lane, III v. Matthew Curtis Witt, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion manifest-fraud pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error Should the Supreme Court provide guidance on mandatory accommodation of judicial discretion to ensure fair hearings for pro se litigants and clarify i…
23-7389 Brad Evans v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the State of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroach upon the personal rights…
23-7384 Javier Mandry, aka Javier E. Mandry-Mercado v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment implied-contract plebiscite pro-se-litigants puerto-rico-statehood statehood tucker-act Whether participation in the Congress—authorized 2017 and 2020 plebiscite for Puerto Ricans, on statehood elections, constitutes an implied in fact co…
23-801 Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC California 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim…
23-6254 William Graves, III v. Florida Florida 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants Whether the state of Florida has created rules of criminal and appellate procedure that arbitrarily and unreasonably encroaches upon the personal righ…
23-5246 Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Can the Circuit Courts of Appeals treat indigent pro se litigants differently than they treat litigants who can afford attorneys, by just dismissing t…
22-7294 Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment Whether the systemic discrimination against pro se litigants by the federal courts, including the imposition of punitive sanctions for filing non-friv…
22-6865 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure complaint-sufficiency due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-bias judicial-discretion jurisdiction pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing Whether Courts have discretion to hold pro se litigants to a strictly following Fed.R.Civ.P. while ignoring represented litigants' late filings and wh…
22-6295 Jamisi Jermaine Calloway v. M. Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied IFP access-to-courts ada-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights continuing-violation-doctrine disability-rights due-process indigent-prisoner-rights legal-assistance pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation section-1983 When should a total disabled incarcerated indigent prisoner be appointed legal assistant in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case?
21-8222 Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fifth-amendment judicial-discretion leave-to-amend pro-se pro-se-litigants standards-of-practice standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits federal courts from holding pro se litigants to the same stringent standards as attorneys
21-7760 William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco…
21-7523 Martin Robinson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-04-01 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-claims criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-litigants Whether the criminal justice system lacks common sense in the treatment of pro se litigants
20-1609 David R. Seaton v. Blake Johnson, et al. District of Columbia 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights de-escalation electronic-evidence evidence-standards police-brutality pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation recent-rulings summary-judgment use-of-force Question not identified
20-976 David H. Penny v. Lincoln's Challenge Academy Seventh Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-civil-rules judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment What is the proper treatment of Pro Se litigants nationwide who make a technical error or other mistake for lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of…
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska 2020-04-08 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-6879 Salim Abdul-Malik v. City Government Office of Court Administration, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-accessibility due-process immigration-procedures judicial-reform pleading-standards prisoner-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation state-action What is the proper treatment of pro se litigants in the federal court system to ensure their constitutional and judicially-recognized rights to a fair…
19-6694 Tim Sundy v. Martha C. Christian, Judge, et al. Georgia 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights court-officer criminal-activity due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants property-rights state-court-officers takings Whether pro se litigants are immune from criminal activity by State court officers
19-332 Steven E. Davis, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1915 civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forma-pauperis judicial-access legal-costs pro-se pro-se-litigants standing Do pro se litigants have any 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS'
18-8684 Robert E. Young v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial mixed-cases pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation rules-of-evidence standing summary-judgment Did the 7th District Court and the 7th Circuit Court deny the Appellant the protection and benefits granted by the 5th and 7th Amendments?
18-6506 Guy Boudreaux, Jr. v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-procedure legal-education legal-mail legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation procedural-error right-of-access-to-courts Is our system of justice truly just when it requires an attorney to attend six years of college prior to being permitted to practice law, but requires…
18-6043 Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-09-19 Denied IFP access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims Should there be a precedent from the Court that protects pro-se-prisoners' right to contest misconstrued-of-pro-se-claims?
18-334 Amor Medina Del Rosario, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-protections dismissal due-process fed-r-civ-p-60 federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice notice-requirements pro-se pro-se-litigants public-policy rules-of-procedure service service-of-pleading Whether the failure to serve a pleading upon pro-se litigants warranted a favorable ruling under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60 and removal of a dismissal of an acti…