Midgett v. Cook Inlet Pre-Trial Facility

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that litigant’s interest in financial recovery “is not nearly as compelling as the right to have children, the right to custody of children, or the right to oppose the deprivation of liberty”
• adopting test articulated in Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 335, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976)
• referring to Jay M. Zitter, Annotation, State Prisoner’s Right to Personally Appear at Civil Trial to Which He is a Party — State Court Cases, 82 A.L.R.4& 1063 (1990)
• “Generally, a prisoner has a due process right to reasonable access to the courts . . . .”
• “We have held that, where negligence is not evident to lay people, the plaintiff in a medical malpractice action must present expert testimony to establish the claim.”
• adopting test articulated in Mathews

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).