Higgenbottom v. McManus

How courts have described this case

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

• “Extending Houston’s mailbox rule ... extends no special privilege to [a prisoner], but merely takes into consideration the unique disabilities that [his] status forces upon him.”
• “A party whose complaint reaches the Clerk after the statute of limitations has expired ordinarily cannot maintain a lawsuit, even if the complaint was placed in the mail during the limitations period.” (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 3 & 5(e))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).