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dc.contributor.authorHammond, Andrew
dc.date2021-11-25T13:35:40.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T12:06:45Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T12:06:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-01T00:00:00-07:00
dc.identifierylj/vol128/iss6/1
dc.identifier.contextkey14478066
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/10376
dc.description.abstractWhat must a poor person plead to gain access to the federal courts? How do courts decide when a poor litigant is poor enough? This Article answers those questions with the first comprehensive study of how district courts determine when a litigant may proceed in forma pauperis in a civil lawsuit. It shows that district courts lack standards to determine a litigant’s poverty and often require litigants to answer an array of questions to little effect. As a result, discrepancies in federal practice abound—across and within district courts—and produce a pleading system that is arbitrary, inefficient, and invasive.
dc.titlePleading Poverty in Federal Court
dc.source.journaltitleYale Law Journal
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T12:06:45Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylj/vol128/iss6/1
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9333&context=ylj&unstamped=1


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