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· 8/8/2014

Aaron Schnitzler v. United States

Citations

  • 411 U.S. App. D.C. 412
  • 761 F.3d 33
  • 2014 WL 3882440
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 15272

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a district court shall “construe a pro se plaintiff’s filings liberally, and . . . consider his filings as a whole before dismissing a complaint[.]”
  • holding a plaintiff’s “claim is not moot” where “he has not received all the 13 relief he sought”
  • stating that district courts have an “obligation to construe a pro se plaintiff’s filings liberally”
  • noting that courts may consider a pro se litigant’s “filings as a whole before dismissing a complaint”
  • explaining that “whether or not the government’s policy explanations are reasonable under the [APA] is a merits question, not a question of the court’s jurisdiction”
  • explaining that “whether or not the government’s policy explanations are reasonable under the [APA] is a merits question, not a question of the court’s jurisdiction”

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Judges: Garland, Wilkins, Ginsburg

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