Ann Williams-Guice v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding even uncounseled litigants must act within time provided by statutes and rules
• explaining limits to tolling of statute of limitations based on non- payment of fees
• “litigants’ failure to address the legal ques- tion from the right perspective does not render us powerless to work the problem out properly. A court of appeals may and often should do so un- bidden rather than apply an incorrect rule of law to the parties’ circum- stances”
• “litigants’ failure to address the legal ques- tion from the right perspective does not render us powerless to work the problem out properly. A court of appeals may and often should do so un- bidden rather than apply an incorrect rule of law to the parties’ circum- stances”

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