Belcaster v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that the purpose of a court rule that authorizes dismissal of a case for failure to prosecute is “to provide an enforcement mechanism” to allow a court “to ensure that plaintiffs will diligently pursue the claims”
• upholding dismissal where length of delay was approximately ten months and plaintiffs provided no reason for delay and had lengthy history of having deliberately proceeded in a dilatory fashion
• cit- ing Lee v. Friedman, 637 N.E.2d 1318, 1320 (Ind. Ct. App. 1994), trans. not sought
• affirming dismissal where inaction for ten months
• where a ten-month delay was deemed unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).