Donna B. Fischer v. Cingular Wireless, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing lawsuit with prejudice for failing to comply with discovery deadlines
• concluding that courts do not have to tolerate a litigant’s inactivity or delay by giving them a warning and an opportunity to respond before issuing a dismissal
• explaining that pro se plaintiff’s disregard for discovery deadlines and refusal to schedule deposition justified dismissal
• explaining that pro se plaintiff’s disregard for discovery deadlines and refusal to schedule deposition justified dismissal
• emphasizing that defendant’s motion asking court to dismiss case if pro se plaintiff continued to ignore discovery deadlines gave plaintiff adequate warning
• affirming dismissal for failure to prosecute even when plaintiff did not receive explicit notice of impending dismissal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kasalo v. Harris & Harris, Ltd.
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-08-26· cited 143×
• Hoskins v. Dart
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-20· cited 116×
• McInnis v. Duncan
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-10-12· cited 92×
• Adrianna Brown v. Columbia Sussex C
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-12-15· cited 86×
• Kevin Sroga v. Ronald Huberman
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-10· cited 68×
• John McMahan v. Deutsche Bank AG
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-13· cited 55×
• Peggy Pendell v. City of Peoria, Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-08-26· cited 41×
• Cedric Dupree v. Marcus Hardy
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-06-13· cited 26×
• Watkins v. Nielsen
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-12-16· cited 17×
• Ammons-Lewis v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-10-30· cited 11×
• In re Nora
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-04-13· cited 7×
• Jenkins v. Miles
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-02-13· cited 6×
• Curtis-Joseph v. Richardson
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-04-08· cited 5×
• In re Wolf
  N.D. Illinois· 2017-04-13· cited 3×
• Malone v. Securitas Security Services USA, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-10-27· cited 3×
• Thomas Consolidated Industries, Inc. v. Herbst (In Re Thomas Consolidated Industries, Inc.)
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-07-31· cited 2×
• Heartland Memorial Hospital LLC v. Gupta
  N.D. Indiana· 2011-07-06· cited 1×
• Kowalski v. Cook County Sheriff's Dep't.
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-10-18· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-07-31
• Gregory McInnis v. Arne Duncan
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-10-12

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anthony Johnson v. Richard Kamminga, G. Brown, Lieutenant Dave Conover
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-09-30· cited 798×
• Ehrenhaus v. Reynolds
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-05-29· cited 588×
• Richard F. Harrington, Tavares Harrington, Tyjuan Kidd v. City of Chicago, Officer Delgado, Officer Moran
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-01-03· cited 384×
• Mark A. Ball v. City of Chicago and Alfred S. Schultz, Individually and as Agent of the City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-09-16· cited 265×
• Emerson v. Thiel College
  Third Circuit· 2002-07-10· cited 177×
• Charles Kruger v. Kenneth S. Apfel
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-05-10· cited 119×
• In re Bluestein & Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-10-26· cited 68×
• Leroy Bolt v. Robert Loy and Village of Winthrop Harbor
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-09-13· cited 65×
• Lawrence Dunphy v. Margaret McKee
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-01-22· cited 55×
• Lockhart v. Sullivan
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-02-19· cited 47×
• Kristin K. Moffitt v. Illinois State Board of Education
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-01-09· cited 44×
• United States v. Corey A. Williams
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-06· cited 40×
• Federal Election Commission v. Al Salvi for Senate Committee and Stephanie Mustell, as Treasurer
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-03-08· cited 36×
• Aura Lamp & Lighting, Inc. v. International Trading Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-04-09· cited 25×
• Michael R. Damerville v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-12-23· cited 18×
• Williams v. Chicago Board of Education
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-08-31· cited 12×
• Rodgers v. Curators of the University Missouri
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-02-03· cited 8×