Myers v. Emke

How courts have described this case

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

• noting there is no constitutional provision establishing that a prisoner has the right to attend a civil proceeding
• holding district court lacked authority to order removal of inmate from Iowa State Penitentiary in Lee County so he may appear and testify in his own behalf in civil suit filed in Wapello County because court was “without power to invade the executive department’s control”
• court’s discretion may account for the orderly and efficient exercise of its jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).