Reginald Lacroix Poole v. Larry Lambert

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an inmate has no absolute right to be present at the trial of his civil action
• describing the appointment of counsel as a “privilege that is justified only by exceptional circumstances” and that does a service to both the court and the litigant by “limit[ing] litigation to potentially meritorious issues”
• “[L]awful incarceration necessarily limits an inmate's right to plead and manage his own case personally.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).