Leroy Bolt v. Robert Loy and Village of Winthrop Harbor

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, if “the party opposing the motion thinks the motion’s lack of merit so patent that no response is required,” the district court “either orders the party to respond or decides the motion without the benefit of a response”
• considering dismissal of a case with prejudice when a response was almost three months overdue
• plaintiff’s failure to respond that delays the litigation can be basis for dismissal for want of prosecution
• \A plaintiff's failure to respond that delays the litigation can be a basis for a dismissal for lack of prosecution.\
• but also noting that, “[e]ven without a warning, egregious misconduct can be punished by dismissal.”
• “There are a myriad of reasons why a party might be months late in responding to a motion. The likeliest . . . is carelessness . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).