Isabella Ferrelli v. River Manor Health Care Center

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• recognizing that appointment of counsel primarily depends on whether “the [plaintiff’s] position seems likely to be of substance”
• holding that the duty to appoint a guardian ad litem or issue another appropriate order “arises after a determination of incompetency.”
• holding that the duty to appoint guardian ad litem or issue another appropriate order “arises after a determination of incompetency.”
• holding that there is no necessary relationship between mental incompetence warranting appointment of legal representative and mental derangement or personality disorder that may cause utterly bizarre and destructive conduct in litigation; Rule 17(c
• explaining that “due process 27 considerations attend an incompetency finding and the subsequent appointment of a guardian ad litem”
• noting that a pro se litigant need only show “some chance of success” or “‘seem[] likely to be of substance” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).