Louis Gomez v. Usaa Federal Savings Bank and Janette Adger Mills

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• holding that a court dismissing a pro se complaint must provide sufficient guidance to the plaintiff to understand the deficiencies that need to be addressed in order to state a claim
• holding that a court dismissing a pro se complaint must provide sufficient guidance to the plaintiff to understand the deficiencies that need to be addressed in order to state a claim
• stating that pro se complaints are generally “not dismiss[ed] without granting leave to amend at least once when a liberal reading of the complaint gives any indication that a valid claim might be stated” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that, even in cases concerning dismissals under § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii
• vacating dismissal of case sua sponte for lack of venue, but under circumstances in which leave to amend had not been allowed
• “A district court may not dismiss a case sua sponte for improper venue absent extraordinary circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).