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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A722 Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process frivolous-dismissal pro-se-litigant section-1915 Whether a federal appellate court can summarily dismiss a pro se civil rights appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) without providing meani…
24-7364 Philip Emiabata, et ux. v. Bank of New York Trust Company, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-foreclosure pre-service-dismissal section-1915 Whether judicial foreclosure under Texas law and pre-service dismissal of a complaint violate constitutional due process protections
22-322 Zia Shaikh v. Madeline F. Einbinder, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights de-novo-review due-process first-amendment judicial-immunity section-1915 standing vexatious-litigant Did the Third Circuit err in not doing a De Nova Review
21-6829 Ibrahim Donmez v. New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process litigation-reform neitzke-v-williams non-prisoner-complaints prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights screening-standard section-1915 standing statutory-interpretation Does 28-USC-1915 allow dismissal of non-frivolous non-prisoner complaints for failure to state a claim or seeking relief against immune defendants bef…
18-7853 John Patrick Fletcher v. Celia Schwartz, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-1915 42-U.S.C-1983 7th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process prisoner-complaint pro-se section-1915 section-1983 section-242 seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the Seventh Amendment allows an action to be dismissed under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 — without a finding of factual error — six months after the issu…