Charise L. Logan v. First Transit

The Due Process Question Whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause prohibits a state appellate court from dismissing an appeal for lack of a transcript when the court s own rules (Minn. R. Civ. App. P. 110.02) provide a 60-day deadline for delivery, yet the court dismissed the case 19 days prior to that deadline.

The Equal Protection Question Whether a state violates the Equal Protection Clause and the principles established in Griffin v. Illinois (1956) by dismissing the appeal of an indigent litigant with an approved In Forma Pauperis (IFP) status because of a court reporter’s failure to provide a transcript—effectively creating a wealth-based barrier to appellate review.

The "Access to Courts" Question Whether the systematic practice of a state court clerk relegating over 150 timelysubmitted documents to "Miscellaneous" files, thereby withholding them from the official record and judicial review, constitutes a denial of the fundamental right of access to the courts. n