Hodges v. Tennessee Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that trial courts have the “express authority to dismiss cases for failure to prosecute or to comply with the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure or the orders of the court”
• affirming the chancery court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s complaint for failure to file a summons and failure to prosecute
• stating trial courts posses inherent authority to control their dockets which includes the authority to dismiss cases for failure to comply with orders of the court
• “Trial courts possess inherent, common-law authority to control their dockets and the proceedings in their courts.”
• “Trial courts possess inherent, common-law authority to control their dockets and the proceedings in their courts. Their authority is quite broad…”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).