access-to-justice
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6434 | Natasha T. Baskin v. Algernon M. Pitre | District of Columbia | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 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… |
| 25-6258 | Pamela S. Julian v. Dhurata Ametaj, et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-12-01 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice arbitration due-process economic-status federal-arbitration-act indigency | X. Are an individual's constitutional due process rights violated when lower courts or arbitrators decline to hold an evidentiary hearing to review an… |
| 25-6233 | Rod Serp v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice case-dismissal federal-courts government-accountability judicial-review pro-se-litigation | This case began in late 2023 in Central District Court. It was dismissed without prejudice by Judge Fisher to be refiled in Federal Claims Court. Judg… |
| 25A597 | Christopher Fonte v. Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Application | access-to-justice disability-barriers due-process equitable-tolling judicial-review notice-requirements | Whether state notice-of-claim statutes, when applied without regard to equitable doctrines, disability-related barriers, or government misconduct that… | |
| 25-5794 | Jasmine E. Golden v. Amazon | North Carolina | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice civil-rights corporate-misconduct gatekeeper-order intellectual-property pro-se-litigation | 1. Petitioner was denied appropriate justice and retribution for the intentional maligning of her brand name, GoldenPrints, LLC, and intellectual prop… |
| 25-5662 | Martha Jane Ford v. Bank of New York Mellon, Trustee, for CWABS, Incorporated Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2 | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice attorney-misconduct due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity mediation-agreement | 1. Whether the enforcement of a mediation agreement procured through fraud, coercion, and attorney misconduct —despite a prior court order barring for… |
| 25-316 | Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla | Florida | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (2) | access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct | 1. Whether a state court's denial of meaningful appellate review, based on the absence of a transcript that the court itself suppressed or failed t… |
| 25-5016 | General Parker v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigant rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations | 1. Did the clerk's office's failure to file the petitioner's complaint and motion for an extension of time constitute a denial of access to the courts… |
| 24-607 | Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | California | 2024-12-03 | Denied | access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause, equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and the litigants' right to access justi… | |
| 24-5967 | Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. | California | 2024-11-13 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute | Are the State of California courts at multiple levels (trial, appellate, and supreme) violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to d… |
| 24-5965 | David C. Lettieri v. Department of Justice, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice administrative-law court-filing judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules | 1. Can a judge remove a paper from being filed? 2. Does A sign authorization need to be, signed? |
| 23-7070 | Riley Thornock, et ux. v. Bedford County, Virginia | Virginia | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking | Does the government's attempt to compel an individual out of their established residence or property warrant the appointment of a court-appointed atto… |
| 23-576 | Sohail M. Abdulla v. Southern Bank | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing | May it please this Honorable Court to consider the establishment of a new guideli inp aimed at preventing the dismissal of pro se civil parties with m… | |
| 23-5530 | Matthew Jones v. Maine State Police Troop E | Maine | 2023-09-06 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure court-fees due-process fee-waiver indigency indigent-status judicial-access legal-standing procedural-rights standing | Who qualifies for fee waivers in the United States Court system? |
| 23-5007 | Alexis Carberry Benson, on Behalf of Minor Child K.C., Jr., et al. v. Fort Mill Schools/York County District 4, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice ada district-court-jurisdiction idea idea-law in-forma-pauperis individual-immunity pro-se right-to-counsel section-1983 | Right to Counsel Preface: IDEA Procedural Safeguards 1415 states: "Any party * shall be accorded the right* to be accompanied and advised by counsel".… |
| 22-7786 | Lei Yin v. Biogen Inc. | First Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure judicial-discretion legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing | 1. Whether the Pro Se Rights shall be preserved in Federal Court System? 2. In Civil Cases, under what condition those who cannot afford to hire a la… |
| 22-956 | Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District | Texas | 2023-03-31 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law | Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to… |
| 22-5932 | Nick Casavelli, et ux. v. Donna Johanson, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary T. Johanson, Deceased | Arizona | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-preemption legislative-standard service-of-process standing state-legislation substantive-review vexatious-litigant | Can states pass laws that challenge the power of Congress to regulate constitutional rights? If the State of Arizona can legally apply the Arizona Re… |
| 22-5905 | Terrell Biggs, Jr. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company | Tennessee | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress equal-protection insurance-company standing systemic-misconduct | WHETHER THE STATE APPELLATE COURTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY FORCING THE PLAINTIFF AND SIMILARLY?: SITUATED CITIZENS UNDER THE CONTROL OF NATIONAL PRIV… |
| 22-5682 | Jonathan F. Ramos v. Valmont Industries, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-rights due-process employment-discrimination reasonable-accommodation sign-language-interpretation standing workplace-accessibility | Why Valmont employ or Allow ASL interpreter on the floor but why not if denial, from Valmont Alloways Nebraska, needs Texas more clear understand? Wh… |
| 22-5578 | Cynthia S. Wills v. First Republic Bank | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pleading-standards rules-enabling-act seventh-amendment standing supreme-court-review | Petitioner "Pro Se" requests a Writ of Certiorari for compelling reasons. "The United States Department of Justice reestablished the Office for Acces… |
| 22-5171 | Rebekah Werth v. Stuart Police Department, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-access in-forma-pauperis indigent-plaintiff legal-standards pro-se standing sua-sponte-dismissal | 1. Do the sua sponte dismissals by the lower courts under the in forma pauperis statute 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (e) (2) (B), in which the reviewing court mer… |
| 21-5893 | In Re Sandra Black | 2021-10-05 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism | 1. How is it possible for a black person to have constitutional rights to be treated EQUAL to a white person's rights, privileges, benefits and advant… | |
| 21-5698 | Jasper Crook v. Ricardo Aguilar, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts access-to-justice case-closure civil-rights court-fees due-process free-speech judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-rights ninth-circuit | Petitioner has a right to "free justice and open courts ". NO fee needed to have Ninth Circuit hear a matter. Case cannot be closed due to fee(s) not … |
| 21-228 | Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. | Tennessee | 2021-08-17 | Denied | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure | WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE PROCEDURE_,TENN.R.CIV.P. 59.04, TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY S… | |
| 21-139 | James W. Gilliam, II v. Discover Bank, et al. | New York | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | access-to-justice american-jurisprudence civil-rights constitutional-rights court-representation due-process fundamental-rights individual-immunity justice-system legal-access right-to-counsel | This petition raises the Constitutional issue of whether or not a citizen of the United States is entitled to his or her own day in court — or be deni… |
| 21-85 | Neil G. Leeds v. Hanmi Bank | California | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights court-reporter due-process in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing unruh-act | The American Dream. Where a young citizen beat the odds of adversity and extreme poverty with only a ninth grade education to build one of the most … |
| 20-1450 | Michael C. Murphy v. Melissa Ann Blalock, as Executrix of the Estate of Gloria Kay Murphy-Wallace | Tennessee | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | access-to-justice civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review procedural-due-process standing state-courts tennessee-rules | Whether the Tennessee state trial and appellate courts using a constitutionally vague procedural rule, Tenn.R.Civ. P. 59.04, to deny citizens an oppor… |
| 20-7376 | Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism | Question not identified. |
| 20-7104 | Vincent Lyle Badkin v. Lockheed Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement duty-of-fair-representation judicial-review labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act section-301 wrongful-termination | In this "hybrid § 301" claim brought under Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals "has… |
| 20-5477 | Elvis Henry Idada v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-justice constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure defendants-rights discovery discovery-restrictions due-process government-limitations government-misconduct judicial-review sixth-amendment | Should This Court Address the Sixth Amendment Deprivations Created by the Government's Pervasive Restrictions on Defendants' Access to Discovery? |
| 19-7181 | Anna Bell v. Oregon Health & Science University | Oregon | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 7th-amendment access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial self-representation | 1) Does denying a pro se individual or public a proper course of justice by a Court violate prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings and The Ninth Amendment t… |
| 19-6536 | Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se | Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential to fairness in a civil case? The working poor citizens of t… |
| 19-6022 | Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction | whEthER Countq clinton Heit ANd NURSE JA:l violAted PEtitioNER's 14+h Right AMENd mENt BY DENYiNg oppurtonity the him to woRk IN food 2 SERV.CE ; whot… |
| 18-9843 | Freddie Lee Fountain v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant indigent-defense procedural-protections | A United States citizen accused of crime upon American soil retained no constitutional rights or procedural protections of any value during the crimin… |
| 18-9309 | Valentin Spataru v. Harmony Healing Center | Florida | 2019-05-17 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice appellate-rules civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-assistance legal-dismissal standing | 1. Whether a County or State Court, including a Monroe County Court, may dismiss a complaint without due process, for failure to comply initially with… |
| 18-8598 | Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing | Should the courts be required to uphold laws that are created, by Congress, to specifically protect the rights of underprivileged, federally protected… |
| 18-8465 | Paula Jo Kunsman v. Joel Wall | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts access-to-justice bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-1307 bankruptcy-dismissal bankruptcy-judge-discretion bankruptcy-law chapter-13 circuit-split dismissal due-process judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-debtor | Are Bankruptcy Judges in the Southern District dismissing too many pro se debtors' cases without cause? This is of importance to the public because co… |
| 18-6684 | Arika Matelyan v. Fox 11 | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection free-speech standing | Why do't the highest coort in the land put copy right to Conbent I would like to ask wny dont the supeme count go by the law and follow wnat the lowe… |
| 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… |
| 18-6219 | Melissa May v. Continental Towers Condominiums Association, et al. | Kentucky | 2018-10-04 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice accessibility civil-procedure civil-rights court-accommodation disability-discrimination due-process legal-procedure reasonable-accommodation self-representation standing | Did the state of Kentucky not facilitate discrimination of Ms. May entirely, because of her disability? Furthermore was it reasonable in US democracy… |
| 18-6052 | Mohsen Khoshmood v. Catholic Charity, et al. | District of Columbia | 2018-09-20 | Denied | IFP | access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights court-system discrimination due-process judicial-bias judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-system standing | "Legal system in superior courts completely corrupt misjudgment or risk judgment or un responsibility judgement remove the trust of people from judici… |