Malloy v. Lee County

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the right to retain counsel in civil litigation is implicit in the concept of fifth amendment due process”
• explaining a litigant “requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings”
• explaining a litigant “requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings”
• “Historically and in practice, the right to a hearing has always included the right to the aid of counsel when desired and provided by the party asserting the right.”
• where plaintiff’s lead counsel was representing judge at the time of trial in personal, unrelated, matters and the judge’s father was a member of plaintiff’s counsel’s law firm, recusal was required
• “[W]hen a partner in a law firm is related to a judge within the third degree, that partner will always be known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of a proceeding involving the partner’s law firm”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).