Wilson v. Deustche Bank Trust Company Americas
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-06818
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 4
In Wilson v. Deustche Bank Trust Company Americas, Judge Swain ordered Wilson to pay fees or submit a fee-waiver application.
Claude Owen Wilson must either pay $405 or submit a signed application to proceed without prepaying fees within 30 days. If he does not comply, the action will be dismissed.
What happened
In Wilson v. Deustche Bank Trust Company Americas, Claude Owen Wilson filed a lawsuit without a lawyer but did not pay the required fees or submit an application to proceed without prepaying them.
The court gave Wilson 30 days to pay $405 or submit a signed application showing that he cannot afford the fees. The court will not issue a summons yet, and the case will be dismissed if Wilson does not comply.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain also ruled that any appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith and denied fee-waiver status for an appeal.
The detailed version
- Wilson v. Deustche Bank Trust Company Americas · No. 1:25-cv-06818
- Laura Swain
- Aug. 27, 2025
Background
Claude Owen Wilson brought this action without a lawyer. He submitted his complaint without paying the required filing and administrative fees and without submitting an application to proceed without prepaying fees, commonly called an IFP application.
The Court’s Order
The court ordered Wilson, within 30 days of the order, to do one of two things: pay $405, consisting of a $350 filing fee and a $55 administrative fee, or submit a signed IFP application. The application must identify docket number 25-CV-6818 (LTS). If the court grants the application, Wilson may proceed without paying the fees in advance.
No summons will issue at this time. If Wilson complies, the Clerk’s Office will process the case under its procedures. If he does not comply within the allowed period, the action will be dismissed.
Appeal
The court certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that an appeal from this order would not be taken in good faith. It therefore denied IFP status for purposes of an appeal.
Result
The court did not rule on the underlying claims. Judge Laura Taylor Swain ordered Wilson to pay the fees or submit the IFP application within 30 days, and denied IFP status for an appeal.
Read the full 4-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.