Arthur Lewis v. Gordon H. Faulkner

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• explaining that the requirements apply when affidavits are submitted along with motions to dismiss
• adopting a “general rule” that a prisoner pro se plaintiff is “entitled to receive notice of the consequences of failing to respond with affidavits to a motion for summary judgment”
• adopting a “general rule” that a prisoner pro se plaintiff is “entitled to receive notice of the consequences of failing to respond with affidavits to a motion for summary judgment”
• Seventh Circuit suggests that the three state attorneys general in this circuit ought to assume the responsibility of notifying pro se prison litigants
• “We leave for another day the possible extension of our new rule to other classes of pro se civil litigants”
• pro se prisoner-plaintiff must be warned in plain English of consequences of fail- ing to respond properly to defendant’s motion for sum- mary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).