Calvin McDonald v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that sua sponte dismissal against a non-moving defendant is disfavored when the plaintiff has “no opportunity to amend their complaint[] or make legal arguments against the dismissal”
• explaining that a court must “notify all parties of its intent to dismiss the complaint” and “give the plaintiff a chance to either amend his complaint or respond to the reasons stated by the district court in its notice of intended sua sponte dismissal.”
• noting that such an approach is “not favored”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).