indigent-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25-6148 Jehan Semper v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se Constitutional and Civil Rights District Court 1. District Court FAILS to Consider Indigent Pro Se Plaintiffs Filings and Motions Whatsoever. Is it …
24-6030 Kenneth R. Talley, et al. v. Darren Horn, et al. Delaware 2024-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-authority legal-representation state-jurisdiction Does state law, Article VI, Section 14 of the Second Delaware Constitution adopted in 1792, with Article IV, Section 10 of the Delaware Constitution 1…
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…
23-7454 Jennifer L. M. Sendzul v. Jay C. Hoag, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals-court civil-rights covid-19 district-court due-process indigent-rights judicial-access judicial-discretion remote-proceedings writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether a writ of certiorari is appropriate when a district court denies any other form of meaningful access other than in-person for scheduled hea…
23-7237 William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina South Carolina 2024-04-17 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation 1. Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with this Court's constitutional framework, where—in every case—indigent inmates are deprived…
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Question not identified.
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar 1. Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent against public defenders? 2. Is it unconstitutional for the St…
22-6035 Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California California 2022-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits DOES THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL APPEAL TIME LIMIT (TIME BAR) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S 14TH AMNEDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE PERTAINING…
22-5903 L. Powers v. United States Postal Service Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-rights in-forma-pauperis indigent-rights judicial-discretion judicial-powers 1. Was the appearance of dismissing Petitioner's in forma pauperis applications an abuse of judicial powers & law? -I filed three in form pauperis app…
22-5423 Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. Mississippi 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro…
22-5200 Robert Oulton, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-showing due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standard QUESTION ONE: IN FILING FOR A COA, CAN A SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE RECORD BY AN INDIGENT BE CONSIDERED A SUBSTANTIVE PART OF DEMONSTRATING "A SUBSTA…
21-6066 R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC First Circuit 2021-10-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing a. Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled? b. Can a trustee in a bankruptcy matter use per…
21-5497 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. …
21-5495 José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. Florida 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights 1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le…
21-5470 Aleksys Lomeli-Garcia v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arizona casey-v-united-states constitutional-review fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners indigent-rights judicial-fraud supreme-court-procedure suspension-clause (1) . Did the concealed 28 U.S.C. 2244(c) facts cause this Court to unwittingly Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus for all Ariz. indigent prisoners whe…
20-6235 Mario Montano v. Court of Appeals of Michigan Michigan 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts court-sanctions due-process indigent-litigants indigent-rights judicial-abuse judicial-authority legal-merit procedural-fairness sanctions 1. Did the Michigan Supreme Court abuse its authority by sanctioning the indigent Petitioner $1000 payable to the Clerk of the Court that it knew he …
19-7758 Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. California 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-rights misdemeanor-conviction right-to-counsel Whether the state court's dismissal of the appeal from misdemeanor conviction, despite the lack of assistance of counsel on appeal, violates the Equal…
19-7702 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing 1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AND U.S. DISTRICT COURT DECISIONS CONFLICT WITH THE FORMULATION DESCRIBING RETALIATION CLAIMS WITHIN THE U.S. CIR…
19-7668 Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana Indiana 2020-02-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs 1) Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an…
19-5707 Sidney Jack Narciso v. Sandra V. Narciso Alabama 2019-08-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-conflict judicial-review legal-services legal-services-act mandamus-petition parental-rights standing 1) Biggest Question is how the Unified Judicial System including the Judicial Inquiry Commission can deny a citizen any and ALL review, appeal, and E…
19-169 Jane Doe v. Iowa Iowa 2019-08-08 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty In Iowa, as in nearly every state, a person who has been charged with an offense, but not convicted, is entitled to have the record of the charge expu…
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…
18-7807 Christopher Young v. Michael M. Kraus, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeals-court civil-rights due-process hrcp-rule-4 indigent-rights insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct no-fault-claim public-interest public-safety standing standing-issue state-court-jurisdiction summons-order I, Christopher Young ("Petitioner") am an indigent, disabled, black man with a brain injury that is requesting this Writ of Certiorari, Appeal and Rev…
18-7524 Roger L. Harrison, Jr., et al. v. Charlotte H. Huggins, et al. Illinois 2019-01-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process government-seizure indigent-rights necessary-parties petition-clause petition-for-redress petition-rights recusal seizure-of-property standing takings trust-property The Peter Lux Jr. Estate of ±960 acres of prime farmland was settled in 1923.(App.113a) Moultrie County Judge John Laughlin also signed in 1936 the 36…
18-7337 Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden West Virginia 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err…
18-814 Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Amici (4) bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention 1. Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in j…
18-6687 Hilda T. Kennedy v. Frederic A. Pollock New Jersey 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fee-waiver indigent-rights pauperis standing transcript transcript-fees trial-transcript Is a waiver of the fee for transcribing a trial court on appeal a constitutional entitlement? Can New Jersey limit it's waiver of the fee for transcr…
18-6649 Thelma R. Davis v. Brown & Dortch LLC, et al. Maryland 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-rights judicial-impartiality partiality standing state-court-corruption unfair-treatment This case involves corruption within the state court system, injustice, conflict of interest, partiality, unfair treatment of Petitioner; the denial o…
18-6356 Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus Second Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir WHETHER IT WAS PLAIN ERROR FOR A COURT OF APPEALS TO DENY IN FORMA PAUPERIS RELIEF TO AN INDIGENT APPELLANT WHO LIKE THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE-WAS I…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs 1. Is not an appellate court required to appoint counsel to an indigent in a criminal case? if so, is not an indigent appellant entitled to the cost o…
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework 1. Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an where (1) the state has removed ce…