Burnell Hendricks v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Bert Ross David Post M. Parrott Dana Smith Gloria Conrad Stephen L. Norris Paul Titus Capt. Budd

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiffs incarceration “severely limit[ed] his ability to investigate and present the crucial facts”
• noting that “[i]t is often likely that the assistance of a lawyer will be vital to surviving a potentially dispositive adverse motion”
• noting that Plaintiff “has been incarcerated . . . , severely limiting his ability to investigate and present the crucial facts”
• expressing concern over “arguably meritorious case[s] that may fail to survive a dispositive motion because of an inadequate presentation of the facts”’
• reversing denial of order requesting counsel after concluding that plaintiff’s case turned on developing facts related to reason for prisoner transfer, which involved credibility determinations
• “Having thus given an affirmative answer to the Hodge requirement of a ‘threshold showing of merit,’ we can quickly address the other Hodge factors . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).