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Tenth Circuit· 4/26/2016

Rachel v. Troutt

Citations

  • 820 F.3d 390
  • 94 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 816
  • 100 Fed. R. Serv. 346
  • 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 7515
  • 2016 WL 1638066

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding claim not presented to the district court may not be raised on appeal for the first time
  • holding that district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to appoint expert witness where “the nature of [the plaintiff’s] underlying claim,” which was a deliberate indifference in medial treatment claim, was “not sufficiently complicated to require an independent medical expert”
  • “Courts are not authorized to appoint counsel in § 1983 cases; instead, courts can only ‘request’ an attorney to take a case.”
  • “Courts are not authorized to appoint counsel in § 1983 cases; instead, courts can only ‘request’ an attorney to take a case.”
  • “Courts are not authorized to appoint counsel in § 1983 cases; instead, courts can only ‘request’ an attorney to take a case.”
  • “Courts are not authorized to appoint counsel in § 1983 cases; instead, courts can only ‘request’ an attorney to take a case.”

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Judges: Bácbarach, Gorsuch, McKay, Bacharach

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