ability-to-pay

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A917 Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett Florida 2026-02-13 Denied ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights Question not identified.
24-31 Michael J. Libman, et al. v. Antwon Jones, et al. California 2024-07-12 Denied ability-to-pay attorney-fees disgorgement eighth-amendment excessive-fines professional-conduct proportionality-test Does the court-ordered disgorgement of attorney fees for violation of state rules of professional conduct fall under the "excessive fines" clause of t…
23-7534 Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. Washington 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights This case presents a crucial opportunity for the Supreme Court to protect indigent citizens and set a nationwide precedent for the protection of appea…
23-1024 Country Mutual Insurance Company v. Angela Sudholt, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived ability-to-pay cafa circuit-split class-action class-action-fairness-act federal-jurisdiction home-state-exception primary-defendant real-target 1. Whether a court should consider a defendant's ability to pay a judgment when determining whether the defendant is a "primary defendant" under CAFA'…
22-5660 Jon Anthony Terry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation 1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "…
21-5305 Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split constitutional-consideration constitutional-law criminal-fines eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fine-assessment indigent-defendant judicial-discretion Anyone can go to prison, but not everyone can pay a fine. The district court here imposed a $4,000 fine against Mr. Rosales-Gonzalez, an indigent, non…
19-719 Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation Colorado 2019-12-06 Denied ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment?
19-641 Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation v. Dami Hospitality, LLC Colorado 2019-11-18 Denied 8th-amendment ability-to-pay civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation corporate-liability corporations due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines regulatory-enforcement state-law takings workers-compensation Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to corporations as it does individuals and, if so, whether and to what extent it require…
19-6555 Courtney Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF…
19-5282 James Odell Baxter, II v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th…
18-7122 Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program, 28 C.F.R §54510-11, voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation? Does the …