section-1915
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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… |