Connelly Containers, Inc. v. Lake Utopia Paper, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “amendments to process are freely given because courts do not wish to deny plaintiffs their day in court for failure to observe mere technicalities”
• granting motion to dismiss for insufficient service of process because an unsealed, unsigned summons was not a mere technical defect, but rather a “complete disregard for the requirements of process set forth clearly and concisely in Rule 4”
• “A primary purpose of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is to promote the ends of justice by granting litigants their day in court.”
• “This Court ... does not view service of an unsigned, unsealed summons not issued by the court clerk as a mere technical defect. Instead, it amounts to a complete disregard of the requirements of process set forth clearly and concisely in Rule 4.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).