Richard R. Lawless v. United States, et al.
1. Whether a court of appeals may dismiss an appeal as "frivolous" under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) based on a record that was truncated at the screening stage through exclusion of probative evidence, where no adversarial proceedings or factual development occurred below.
2. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a "frivolous" dismissal under § 1915(e)(2) where the litigant was denied the opportunity to develop a factual record, including through adversarial proceedings, and where a parallel federal proceeding involving the same claim has held that the claim cannot be rejected as a matter of law without such development.
Whether a court of appeals may dismiss an appeal as frivolous under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) based on a truncated record lacking probative evidence and adversarial proceedings, and whether such dismissal violates the Due Process Clause when a parallel federal proceeding has held the claim cannot be rejected as a matter of law without factual development