Clarke v. Blais

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, under Section 1915(e) (1), “there are no funds appropriated to pay a lawyer or even to reimburse a lawyer’s expenses”
• noting that judges must avoid becoming lawyers for unrepresented litigants
• “The First Circuit has not addressed this notice debate directly, but has said, in the summary judgment context, that unrepresented plaintiffs’ opposing affidavits and opposition papers are to be read ‘liberally.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).