Mentally Disabled - Court fees compared to exemption of fees associated with handicap placard fees

Congress passed the original federal IFP statute in 1892, thereby giving courts the discretionary power to permit indigent plaintiffs to initiate civil actions without first paying a filing fee.38 By enacting the statute, Congress sought “to guarantee that no citizen [would] be denied an opportunity to commence, prosecute, or defend an action, civil or criminal, ‘in any court of the United States’ solely because his poverty [made] it impossible for him to pay or secure the costs.” (39)

39. Adkins v. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 335 U.S. 331, 342 (1948). Congress desired that the government not prohibit indigent citizens from litigating a case “because they happen to be without the money to advance pay to the tribunals of justice.” Feldman, supra note 37, at 413–14 (quoting H.R. REP. No. 52-1079, at 2 (1892)

The handicap placard case/ fees

This case involves a challenge under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101, et seq.  (West Supp.1999) (“ADA”), and its regulations to California's $6 biennial fee for disability parking placards.   The State of California, Department of Motor Vehicles [hereinafter “California”], appeals the district court's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of William Robert Dare, Gray Petillo, and the class of plaintiffs they represent.   California claims that the fee does not violate the ADA and that a blanket prohibition on such nominal fees is unconstitutional.   We disagree and affirm the district court. - See more at: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1277814.html#sthash.I59NFhQT.dpuf

Okay, so with this in mind, Doesn't charging non-prisoner pro se litigants alleging civil rights violations against government agency(s) who are impaired with docketed mental disabilities any fee for court costs a violation of the same sort, which would deny the m access to the court(s), especially when the government themselves are not required to pay a fee for say an appeal in a federal court?