Guruwaya v. Montgomery Ward, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “the sanctions expressed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 36(a) are not mandatory” for the court
• explaining that pro se litigants are subject to legal procedures, but that in this particular case “to conclusively find the facts central to this litigation against the defendant without giving him an opportunity to be heard would not further the interests of justice”
• “[T]he Court is reluctant to grant summary judgment against a pro se defendant based solely upon his failure to comply with the discovery requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
• “because the district court has the power to allow a longer time, courts and commentators view this to mean that the court, in its discretion, may permit the filing of an answer that would otherwise be untimely”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).