Hickok v. California

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 have an obligation to comply with court orders, and “[w]hen they flout that obligation they, like all litigants, must suffer the consequences of their actions”
• explaining that pro se litigants have an obligation to comply with court orders, and “[w]hen they flout that obligation they, like all litigants, must suffer the consequences of their actions”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of pro se plaintiff’s lawsuit after district court warned that failure to cooperate with a deposition risked dismissal
• affirming dismissal of action brought by pro se plaintiff for failure to comply with a discovery order
• observing that “special solicitude for the difficulties that a pro se plaintiff must face does not extend to the wil[l]ful, obstinate refusal to play by the basic rules of the system upon whose very power the plaintiff is calling to vindicate his rights”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of pro se plaintiff’s complaint for violating the court’s discovery order by refusing to answer questions put to him at oral deposition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).