In Re Fengling Liu

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that undisclosed ghostwriting inappropriately affords a pro se party the benefit of liberal construction
• noting that “filing[s ] in the wrong venue” require “the [c]ourt to expend resources in transferring cases to the correct venue”
• noting that the Second Circuit does not expressly disapprove of attorneys ghostwriting pleadings for pro se litigants and that there are “various authorities that permit that practice”
• discussing other circuits’ approaches and concluding that, in light of a 2007 ethics opinion issued by the American Bar Association, an attorney’s ghostwriting did not violate her ethical obligations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In re Payne
  Second Circuit· 2013-01-25· cited 31×
• Torrens v. Hood
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-08-29· cited 26×
• In Re Andres M. Aranda
  Second Circuit· 2015-05-22· cited 20×
• In re Tustaniwsky
  Second Circuit· 2014-07-09· cited 10×
• Matter of Fengling Liu
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2017-07-18· cited 9×
• In re Dreamplay, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2015-07-27· cited 8×
• FIA Card Services, N.A. v. James D. Pichette HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. v. Robert L. Cournoyer Discover Bank v. Diana L. O'Brien-Auty
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-06-08· cited 7×
• Luis A. Torrens v. John William Hood, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-08-29· cited 1×
• In re Andres M. Aranda
  Second Circuit· 2015-05-15

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Amnesty America v. Town of West Hartford
  Second Circuit· 2004-03-15· cited 938×
• In Re Snyder
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-24· cited 385×
• Duran v. Carris
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-01-31· cited 90×
• Gadda v. Ashcroft
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-07-20· cited 76×
• In the Matter of Samuel A. Bithoney
  First Circuit· 1973-10-23· cited 55×
• Lloyd G. Ellis v. State of Maine
  First Circuit· 1971-10-04· cited 48×
• In re Rabinowitz
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-04-20· cited 41×
• Laremont-Lopez v. Southeastern Tidewater Opportunity Center
  E.D. Virginia· 1997-06-03· cited 36×
• In re Kraft
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-07-13· cited 33×
• Johnson v. Bd. of County Com'rs County of Fremont
  D. Colorado· 1994-11-17· cited 30×
• United States v. Myong Hwa Song
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-05-21· cited 26×
• In re Altomerianos
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-08-02· cited 24×
• Bennett v. Mukasey
  Second Circuit· 2008-05-12· cited 16×
• Wesley v. Don Stein Buick, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 1997-11-18· cited 16×
• In re Stein
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-03-30· cited 10×
• Klein v. Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
  S.D. New York· 1970-01-20· cited 9×
• In re Chariff
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1995-11-08· cited 6×
• In re Mann
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-06-14· cited 6×
• In re Bartholomew
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-07-09· cited 5×
• In re Gruen
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-09-09· cited 2×