Williams v. Spencer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that, in determining whether litigants are unable to pay, the court should consider resources “they have or can get” (quoting Adkins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 335 U.S. 331, 339-40 (1948)
• “The question under 28 U.S.C. [§] 1915 is whether the litigant is unable to pay the costs, and the answer has consistently depended in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse[.]”
• “The question under 28 U.S.C. [§] 1915 is whether the litigant is unable to pay the costs, and the answer has consistently depended in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse[.]”
• “[W]hether the litigant is ‘unable to pay’ the costs [associated with initiating a lawsuit also] ... depend[s] in part on [the] litigant’s actual ability to get funds from a spouse, a parent, an adult sibling, or other next friend.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).