On December 6, 2019, the Second Circuit (Calabresi, Pooler, Park) issued a published per curiam decision in United States v. Kosic (Nunez), concerning the defendant-appellant’s motion for in forma ...

If the TCPA has a “rock bottom,” we may have just hit it. As recently explained by Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of California: Roy Tuck and his wife Deborah Tuck, together with their ...

Issue: Whether the Fourth Circuit contravened 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) when it granted habeas relief on the ground that the North Carolina state courts unreasonably applied "clearly established" law ...

05/31/2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 2, 2016. 06/06/2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 9, 2016. 06/13/2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 16, 2016. 06/20/2016 Motion to proceed in ...

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that each prisoner in a multi-prisoner suit proceeding in forma pauperis must pay the full amount of a filing fee. A divided U.S. Court of ...

Moshe Avram Perry lost his bid to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today when a per curiam decision upheld the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s ...

MEMORANDUM & ORDER Presently before the Court is pro se Plaintiff Lidia Orrego’s application to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). (ECF No. 2.) As explained below, Plaintiff’s financial status does ...