Ladell Henderson v. Parthasarathi Ghosh

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a court deciding whether to recruit counsel for an indigent civil plaintiff should ask “given the difficulty of the case, does the plaintiff appear competent to litigate it himself?”
• noting that the supply of recruitable counsel is too low to meet demand
• “Almost everyone would benefit from having a lawyer, but there are too many indigent litigants and too few lawyers willing and able to volunteer for these cases.” (quotation omitted)
• “Henderson's case involves complex medical terms and concepts: kidney disease, end stage renal failure, creatine and blood urea nitrogen levels, ‘out of range’ lab results, and dialysis, to name a few.”
• “Henderson's case involves complex medical terms and concepts: kidney disease, end stage renal failure, creatine and blood urea nitrogen levels, ‘out of range’ lab results, and dialysis, to name a few.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).