Fymbo v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a pro se litigant cannot be an adequate class 1 representative under Rule 23(a)(4)
• concluding that district court properly denied pro se plaintiff’s request for class certification “because the competence of a layman is clearly too limited to allow him to risk the rights of others”
• holding that a pro se litigant cannot adequately represent a class under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(a) because a layman’s competence “is clearly too limited to allow him to risk the rights of others”
• holding that a pro se plaintiff is not an adequate class representative \because the competence of a layman is clearly too limited to allow him to risk the rights of others\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that a pro se litigant “cannot adequately represent [a] putative class”
• holding a pro se plaintiff is not an adequate class representative “because the competence of a layman is clearly too limited to allow him to risk the rights of others” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).