Chancery Clerk of Chickasaw County, Mississippi v. Robert Wallace

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• “[Clerks’] duty within the court is to accept and file papers in lawsuits . . . . [C]lerks are improper defendants against whom injunctive relief would be meaningless.”
• chancery judges and clerks had to be dismissed as defendants from class action challenging mental commitment procedures since they did not have necessary personal stake in outcome of controversy to assure case or controversy
• chancery judges and clerks had to be dismissed as defendants from class action challenging mental commitment procedures since they did not have necessary personal stake in outcome of controversy to assure case or controversy

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