A. M. Pearson v. Denny Dennison

How courts have described this case

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• “A court has power to dismiss an action for want of prosecution . . . both under Rule 41(b) and under its local rule . . . and even in the absence of such rules.”
• “A court has power to dismiss an action for want of 4|| prosecution on its own motion, both under Rule 41(b) and under its local rule .. . and 5 || even in the absence of such rules.”
• “A court has power to dismiss an 12 action for want of prosecution on its own motion, both under Rule 41(b) and under its local rule 13 . . . and even in the absence of such rules.”
• “A 1 || court has power to dismiss an action for want of prosecution on its own motion, both 2|| under Rule 41(b) and under its local rule . . . and even in the absence of such rules.”
• court may involuntarily dismiss sua 14 sponte

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).