Johnnie McNeal v. B.H. Papasan, Superintendent of Education, Tunica County Schools

How courts have described this case

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• “[D]elay which warrants dismissal with prejudice must be longer than just a few months . . . .”
• “[W]hen the statute of limitations on a claim has expired, a dismissal of that claim without prejudice is, in reality, a sanction no less harsh than dismissal with prejudice.”
• “Even without a clear record of delay, of course, a record of contumacious conduct . . . would satisfy the first of our two prerequisites for dismissal of a suit with prejudice under Rule 41(b).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).