· 5/12/1976
Wayne Ramsay v. James Bailey, M.D.
Citations
- 531 F.2d 706
- 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 11393
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that a district court’s “warnings that dismissal would result from continued failure to proceed properly” supported a dismissal with prejudice (citing 9 Wright & Miller § 2370)
- noting that a district court’s “warnings that dismissal would result from continued failure to proceed properly” supported a dismissal with prejudice (citing 9 Wright & Miller § 2370)
- “However novel and interesting may be these constitutional claims, it is our duty to decide this case on other grounds if possible.”
- “[A] proper sanction for a failure to respond to a motion to dismiss [is] for the trial court to decide the motion on the papers before it.”
- “[A] proper sanction for a failure to respond to a motion to dismiss [is] for the trial court to decide the motion on the papers before it.”
- because “plaintiff was fully and repeatedly apprised of the possible imposition of the . . . sanction [of dismissal]” the district court need not consider “possible alternative sanctions”
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Judges: Wisdom, Thornberry, Tjoflat
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