United Insurance v. Maloney

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district courts have “inherent power sua sponte to dismiss a case for lack of prosecution.”
• holding that dismissal was within the court’s discretion after the plaintiff received at least three initial warnings of dismissal as well as a status conference to try to remedy the problem
• holding that absence of prejudice 2 not dispositive in the face of “inordinate delay”
• stating that even a “seemingly short delay” with a pattern of dilatory actions could warrant dismissal
• holding 14 that the absence of prejudice is not dispositive in the face of 15 “inordinate delay”
• noting that a 9 district court has “inherent power sua sponte to dismiss a case for lack of prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).