Eliria Knox v. Trade With The Pros S LLC
- Laura Swain
- 1:26-cv-05356
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Eliria Knox v. Trade With The Pros S LLC, Judge Swain dismissed Knox’s complaint without prejudice because she neither paid filing fees nor requested a fee waiver.
Eliria Knox’s complaint was dismissed without prejudice after she did not pay the filing fees or submit the required application to proceed without paying them.
What happened
In Eliria Knox v. Trade With The Pros S LLC, the court had ordered Eliria Knox to either pay the fees required to file a civil case or submit a completed request to proceed without paying them.
Knox did neither within the required thirty days. The opinion does not address the underlying claims against Trade With The Pros S LLC.
Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the complaint without prejudice, directed the clerk to enter judgment, and denied Knox permission to appeal without paying fees after finding that an appeal would not be taken in good faith.
The detailed version
- Eliria Knox v. Trade With The Pros S LLC · No. 1:26-cv-05356
- Laura Swain
- Aug. 19, 2026
Background
By an order dated July 6, 2026, the court directed Eliria Knox, within thirty days, to either submit a completed application to proceed without paying filing fees or pay the fees required to file a civil action. The earlier order warned that failing to comply would result in dismissal of the complaint.
Ruling
Knox did not submit the application or pay the filing fees. The court therefore dismissed the complaint without prejudice under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1914 and 1915. “Without prejudice” means the order did not state that refiling the complaint was barred.
The court also certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that any appeal from the order would not be taken in good faith, and denied permission to appeal without paying fees. The court directed the clerk to enter judgment. The order did not decide the merits of Knox’s claims.
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