Lindewall v. Elion

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the injury-discovery rule for claim accrual still applies to equal protection claims
• explaining that the “should have known” element often means that a cause of action accrues on the date of the injury’s occurrence
• noting that, “whether or not the district court’s dismissals were appropriate in the first instance, the [plaintiffs’] subsequent failure to obey court orders warranted closure of each case”
• explaining the plaintiffs filed “substantially similar complaints” after the district court “clearly instructed” them to “explain their grounds for joinder”
• explaining the plaintiffs filed “substantially similar complaints” after the district court “clearly instructed” them to “explain their grounds for joinder”
• stating a district court has inherent power to manage its own docket, including by dismissing a complaint for failure to comply with a court order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).