Court access for disabled people
Perry v. Encore at Boulevard One
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Shannon Perry, a disabled self-represented litigant, asks the Supreme Court to review the Tenth Circuit’s decision to throw out her federal housing and civil-rights claims for problems with her written arguments.
- What's at stake
- Perry's claims remain dismissed in the lower courts, while her request for Supreme Court review is unresolved.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
She says lower courts denied her disability accommodations and a court-appointed representative (guardian ad litem), and failed to hear her allegations of perjury and fraud.
Perry says her disabilities made it hard to prepare court papers and that lower courts denied her requested accommodations and a court-appointed representative (guardian ad litem). She also says the courts did not hold a hearing on her allegations of perjury and fraud.
Perry's petition asks whether courts must provide disability-related help to a self-represented person before dismissing federal claims over briefing problems, and whether allegations of court fraud require a hearing.
Question presented
1. Whether the Tenth Circuit, in its Order and Judgment in Appendix G, created a conflict with this Court’s authority under the Fourteenth Amendment by affirming the dismissal of a disabled pro se litigant’s civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Violence Against Women Act on waiver and inadequate-briefing grounds, despite the denial of a guardian ad litem under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(c)(2) and reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, thereby denying meaningful access to the courts in conflict with Tennessee v. Lane, 541 U.S. 509 (2004), Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976), and Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371 (1971). 2. Whether the Tenth Circuit, in its Order and Judgment in Appendix G, created a conflict with this Court’s decision in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944), by affirming the district court’s judgment without reaching the merits of well-documented perjury and fraud-on-the-court claims, thereby affirming the denial of any evidentiary hearing on those claims in violation of due process. 3. Whether the Tenth Circuit, in its Order and Judgment in Appendix G, created a conflict with this Court’s authority by affirming the dismissal of the litigants federal civil rights claims on procedural grounds, thereby resulting in indirect permission of Colorado statute to authorize or encourage private discrimination in housing in violation of the Equal Protection Clause, and the Fair Housing Act, in a manner that permits the state statute to supersede the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3600, 3604, and 3615, contrary to this Court’s decisions in cases such as Heitman v. Mulkey, 387 U.S. 369 (1967), Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), and Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999).
What happens next
The Court's next step is to decide whether to agree to hear Perry's case. No oral argument or decision window exists before review is granted.
Documents
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More questions
- What laws are named in Perry's case?
- Her claims involve a federal civil-rights law, the Fair Housing Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Violence Against Women Act.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.