Kennard Davis v. James Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a district court abused its discretion by not appointing a guardian ad litem, which left an incompetent person’s interests “completely unprotected”
• explaining that “the court may not use 21 [Rule 17] as a vehicle for dismissing claims or for allowing the interests of an incompetent litigant to 22 go completely unprotected”
• vacating stay order and administrative closure when district court did not adequately protect plaintiffs interests
• “The district court 18 recognized throughout the pendency of both cases that Davis was, and remains, incompetent.”
• “The magistrate judge recognized . . . Davis has been found incompetent in his pending federal habeas proceeding and... currently receiving long-term involuntary psychotropic medication as directed by the state court order.”’
• finding incompetence under Rule 17(a) based upon mental health problems

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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8 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Ninth Circuit· 2017-07-18· cited 427×
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• Villarreal v. Caremark LLC
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• Public Employees Retirement Ass'n of New Mexico v. Anthony Earley, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-03· cited 20×
• Jerry Stanley v. Kevin Chappell
  Ninth Circuit· 2014-08-13· cited 14×
• M-J-K
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2016-07-01· cited 9×
• Jane Doe v. Daniel Fitzgerald
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-24· cited 7×
• Bravo v. Aker
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2019-01-04· cited 4×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-20· cited 10,863×
• Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 9,657×
• Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,269×
• United States v. Hinkson
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-11-05· cited 2,227×
• Lockyer v. Mirant Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-02-09· cited 631×
• United States v. 30.64 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situated in Klickitat County, State of Washington, and James Starr
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-07-28· cited 549×
• Dependable Highway Express, Inc. v. Navigators Ins.
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-08-22· cited 372×
• United States v. Paul C. Perkins
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-12-19· cited 212×
• Powell v. Symons
  Third Circuit· 2012-03-30· cited 141×
• Keyhea v. Rushen
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-03-06· cited 71×
• Krain v. Smallwood
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-07-26· cited 68×
• Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama v. Unity Outpatient Surgery Center, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-05-24· cited 49×
• Mirella Adelman, on Behalf of Her Son, Daniel Lindsey Adelman v. David H. Graves
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-12-03· cited 30×
• Gardner ex rel. Gardner v. Parson
  Third Circuit· 1989-05-03· cited 14×