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Supreme Court· 6/25/1962

Link v. Wabash Railroad

Citations

  • 370 U.S. 626
  • 82 S. Ct. 1386
  • 8 L. Ed. 2d 734
  • 1962 U.S. LEXIS 849
  • 6 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 831

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that “the availability of a corrective remedy such as is provided by -Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b
  • recognizing that, in both civil and criminal cases, “clients [are] bound by their counsels’ inaction”
  • holding that a party’s deliberate conduct can be reasonably inferred from facts including a “drawn-out history of the litigation”
  • holding that sua sponte dismissal of an action because of counsel's unexcused conduct does not unjustly penalize the client
  • holding that, with respect to attorney misconduct that leads to Rule 41(b) dismissals, \each party is deemed bound by the acts of his [or her] lawyer-agent.\
  • holding that where a plaintiff chooses his attorney, “he cannot ... avoid the consequences of the acts or omissions of this freely selected agent”

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Judges: Harlan, Black, Frankfurter, White, Douglas

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Cites

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