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· 12/23/2002

Bill Wayne Shepherd v. Billy Wellman

Citations

  • 313 F.3d 963
  • 54 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1299
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 26449
  • 2002 WL 31854872

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that § 1654 “does not permit plaintiffs to appear pro se where interests other than their own are at stake”
  • holding that a party “cannot proceed pro se with respect to [a decedent’s] § 1983 action [if] he is not the sole beneficiary of the decedent’s estate”
  • holding that a pro se party may not prosecute a representative wrongful death action brought under section 1983, where the beneficiaries thereof included persons other than himself
  • holding that a pro se party may not prosecute a representative wrongful death action brought under Section 1983, where the beneficiaries thereof included persons other than himself
  • explaining that § 1654 does not permit plaintiffs to appear pro se where interests other than their own are at stake
  • finding that pro se statute “does not permit plaintiffs to appear pro se where interests other than their own are at stake”

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Judges: Keith, Kennedy, Moore

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