Johnston v. Genessee County Sheriff Maha

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “whether or not Johnston’s pretrial detention was substantial enough to give rise to a constitutional violation of his procedural due process rights” was a complex enough legal issue to support appointment of counsel for pro se plaintiff
• granting petition for appointment of counsel where the legal issues raised were “fairly complex” and would be of “substantial assistance” to the court
• appointing counsel in part because “[t]he legal issues raised in this appeal are fairly complex.”
• appointing counsel in part because “[t]he legal issues raised in this appeal are fairly complex” (alteration added)
• “This Court considers motions for appointment of counsel by asking first whether the claimant has met a threshold 2 showing of some likelihood of merit.”
• “This Court considers motions for appointment of counsel by asking first whether the claimant has met a threshold showing of some likelihood of merit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).