Walter M. Guyer v. Jeffrey A. Beard

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that dismissal of a ha-beas petition was proper where the petitioner’s behavior was “contumacious” and “made adjudication of the case impossible.”
• observing that where a litigant’s position “made adjudication of the case impossible,” “any lesser sanction [than dismissal] would not have furthered the interests of justice”
• affirming dismissal without factors for refusal to comply with a court order after repeated refusals to sign court-ordered power of attorney
• affirming dismissal of case where dilatory conduct “made adjudication of the case impossible. Therefore, any lesser sanction would not have furthered the interests of justice.”
• affirming dismissal of case where dilatory conduct “made adjudication of the case impossible. Therefore, any lesser sanction would not have furthered the interests of justice.”
• affirming sanction of dismissal and finding that failure to comply with court orders and communicate with court tantamount to abandonment of claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1993-09-10· cited 830×
• Doe v. Megless
  Third Circuit· 2011-08-01· cited 182×
• Manufacturers Consolidation Service, Inc. v. Rodell
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-03-10· cited 108×
• Molloy v. Independence Blue Cross
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-01-09· cited 43×
• R and C Oilfield Services LLC v. American Wind Transport Group
  Third Circuit· 2022-08-15· cited 35×
• Reginald Roberts v. Risa Ferman
  Third Circuit· 2016-06-17· cited 29×
• Bussinger v. Department of Corrections
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-09· cited 28×
• Bert Hunter v. Paul K. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-08-14· cited 21×
• RTC Mortgage Trust 1994 N-1 v. Fidelity National Title Insurance
  D. New Jersey· 1997-10-20· cited 19×
• Kramer v. Tribe
  D. New Jersey· 1994-07-15· cited 17×
• Kutnyak v. Department of Corrections
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-16· cited 10×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1993-09-10· cited 2×
• Jackson v. U.S. Bankruptcy Court
  Third Circuit· 2009-10-30· cited 1×
• Berry v. St. Thomas Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 1997-04-14· cited 1×
• Manufacturers Consolidation v. Rick Rodell
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-03-10
• Allen v. American Federation of Government Employees
  Third Circuit· 2009-03-18

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Turner v. Safley
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-01· cited 6,491×
• Frederick A. Carter v. Albert Einstein Medical Center
  Third Circuit· 1986-11-06· cited 83×
• Michael Thomas Harper v. Donald Jeffries, and Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
  Third Circuit· 1986-12-31· cited 76×
• Bruce Pickel and Lauren Pickel v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1984-10-05· cited 50×
• Garrison v. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 32×
• Thomas McCandless v. Harold Beyer, Superintendent, Trenton State Prison, and Irwin I. Kimmelman, Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1987-12-08· cited 7×