Downs v. Westphal

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that pro se litigants do not have “unbridled license to disregard clearly communicated court orders,” or to “choose which of the court’s rules and orders [they] will follow, and which [they] will willfully disregard”
• stressing that “being a pro se litigant does not give a party unbridled license to disregard clearly communicated court orders,” or to “choose which of the court’s rules and orders it will follow, and which it will wilfully disregard”
• “being a pro se litigant does not give a party unbridled license to disregard clearly communicated court orders,” or to “choose which of the court's rules and orders it will follow”
• “pro se litigants are not entitled to a general dispensation from the rules of procedure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).