James L. Cherry and Mildred F. Cherry v. Brown-Frazier-Whitney, Partnership

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• stating that the district court’s authority “to dismiss sua sponte for lack of prosecution has generally been considered an ‘inherent power’”
• affirming dismissal for want of prosecution where the “the case had lain dormant for nearly seventeen months after it became ripe for trial,” and “there was positive indication that the delay had operated prejudicially” upon defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).