Brown v. Hutchings

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that “only in civil cases that present an extreme hardship to petitioner are courts empowered to cause legal assistance to be provided”
• citing, e.g., Lassiter, 452 U.S. at 30-32, 101 S.Ct. 2153; Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480, 486-97, 100 S.Ct. 1254, 63 L.Ed.2d 552 (1980) (plurality)
• stating a court should exercise the power to appoint counsel only in “extreme circumstances,” id. at 708
• applying Lassiter v. Department of Soc. Servs., 452 U.S. 18, 101 S.Ct. 2153, 68 L.Ed.2d 640 (1981), and Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480, 100 S.Ct. 1254, 63 L.Ed.2d 552 (1980) (plurality)
• denying motion for appointment of counsel where plaintiff’s complaint raised claims 7 against the U.S. Army for damages resulting from discrimination because those claims “d[id] not rise to the level of ‘extraordinary circumstance’ that necessitates civil legal assistance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).