David P. Pagtalunan v. George Galaza, Warden Thomas Maddock, Acting Director, California Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[uJnnecessary delay inherently increases the risk that witnesses’ memories will fade and evidence will become stale’’
• affirming sua sponte dismissal with prejudice “for failure to prosecute and for failure to comply with a court order”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of case for failure to prosecute when 28 habeas petitioner failed to file a first amended petition
• “It is incumbent upon 26 the court to manage its docket without being subject to routine noncompliance of 27 litigants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).