Wong v. Garland
- Gregory Woods
- 1:24-cv-05934
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 2
In Wong v. Garland, Judge Swain ordered Horace Wong to pay filing fees or submit an application to proceed without prepayment.
Horace Wong, who must either pay the required fees or submit a signed application to proceed without prepayment within 30 days to avoid dismissal of the action.
What happened
In Wong v. Garland, Horace Wong filed a civil action without paying the required fees or submitting an application to proceed without prepayment.
The court gave Wong 30 days to pay $405 or submit a signed application to proceed without prepayment. No summons will issue yet, and the court said the action will be dismissed if Wong does not comply.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain also denied permission to appeal without prepaying fees, finding that any appeal would not be taken in good faith.
The detailed version
- Wong v. Garland · No. 1:24-cv-05934
- Gregory Woods
- Aug. 6, 2024
Background
Horace Wong brought this civil action without a lawyer. He submitted the complaint without paying the required filing and administrative fees and without an application to proceed without prepayment of fees.
Order
The court ordered Wong, within 30 days of the order, to either pay $405 in fees—$350 for the filing fee and $55 for the administrative fee—or submit a signed application to proceed without prepayment. If the court grants the application, Wong may proceed without paying the fees in advance.
The court directed that no summons issue at that time. It stated that, if Wong complies, the case will be processed under the Clerk’s Office procedures, and that the action will be dismissed if he does not comply within the allowed period.
Appeal-fee ruling
The court certified that any appeal from the order would not be taken in good faith and denied permission to appeal without prepaying fees. The order was signed by Chief United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.