Rogers v. NYU
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-02346
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 4
In Rogers v. NYU, Judge Swain ordered Joshua Rogers to pay court fees or submit an application to proceed without prepayment.
Joshua Rogers and NYU; the order primarily affects Rogers’s ability to move the case forward without first paying the required fees.
What happened
Rogers v. NYU is a civil action brought by Joshua Rogers, who is proceeding without a lawyer. The order does not describe the underlying claims. Rogers submitted his complaint without paying the required fees and without an application to proceed without prepayment of fees.
The court gave Rogers 30 days to pay $405 in fees or submit a signed application showing that he cannot pay. No summons will issue at this time. If the court grants the application, Rogers may proceed without paying the fees in advance.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered that the case will be processed if Rogers complies, but the action will be dismissed if he does not comply within the deadline. She also denied fee-free status for any appeal from this order.
The detailed version
- Rogers v. NYU · No. 1:25-cv-02346
- Laura Swain
- Mar. 27, 2025
Background
Joshua Rogers brought this action against NYU and is representing himself. The opinion does not describe the claims. Rogers submitted the complaint without paying the required court fees and without submitting an application to proceed without prepaying fees.
Order
The court explained that starting a civil action requires either payment of $405—consisting of a $350 filing fee and a $55 administrative fee—or a signed application to proceed without prepaying fees. The court directed Rogers, within 30 days of the order, to do one of those two things. If he submits the application, it must identify docket number 1:25-CV-2346 (LTS). If the court grants the application, Rogers may proceed without paying the fees in advance.
No summons will issue at this time. If Rogers complies, the Clerk’s Office will process the case under its procedures. If he does not comply within the allowed time, the action will be dismissed.
Appeal
Judge Laura Taylor Swain certified that an appeal from the order would not be taken in good faith and denied fee-free status for purposes of an appeal. The order does not decide the merits of Rogers’s underlying claims.
Read the full 4-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.