Gifford v. County of Spokane

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an administrator or executor “of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant”
• noting that, despite the plain text of 28 U.S.C. § 1654 guarantees the right to proceed pro se in civil actions, “appearance pro se denotes . . . appearance for one’s self; so that a person ordinarily may not appear pro se in the cause of another person or entity”
• “[A]n administratrix ... of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant.”
• “[A]n administratrix or executrix of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant.”
• “[A]n administratrix or executrix of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant.”
• “an administratrix or executrix of an estate may not proceed pro se when the estate has beneficiaries or creditors other than the litigant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).