Bennie Cooper v. A. Sargenti Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that we may appoint counsel for an indigent litigant upon a showing that the appeal has “likely merit”
• noting that an indigent plaintiff that is a prison inmate may have no effective means of bringing his claim to the attention of counsel
• stating that the courts should not appoint pro bono counsel “indiscriminately,” because “volunteer lawyer time is a precious commodity” that “should not be allocated arbitrarily”
• stating that we may 11 appoint counsel for an indigent litigant upon a showing that the appeal has 12 “likely merit”
• noting that “every assignment of a volunteer lawyer to an undeserving client deprives society of a volunteer lawyer available for a deserving cause”
• emphasizing that an indigent litigant must “first pass the test of likely merit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).