William Hallam Webber v. The Eye Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• reversing dismissal with prejudice for failure to prosecute where “plaintiff had not been prodded by the trial court to expedite his case” and where there was “little in the record to support the contention that plaintiff had not facilitated expeditious movement toward trial”
• “There is no requirement to enter lesser sanctions before dismissing a case for lack of prosecution”
• “There is a well-established public policy favoring hearing cases on the merits[.]”
• dismissal is particularly disfavored with relatively young cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).