William Mitchell v. Phillip Morris Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that for jurisdictional purposes, a prisoner’s domicile is his domicile before he was incarcerated
• noting that a default “is a drastic remedy which should be used only in extreme situations, as the court has available to it a wide range of lesser sanctions” (citation omitted)
• cautioning default is a drastic remedy that should be used sparingly and only in extreme situations
• cautioning default is a drastic remedy that should be used sparingly and only in extreme situations
• explaining the plaintiff was a citizen of Alabama, which is where he maintained his domicile before being incarcerated in a different state
• “Entry of judgment by default is a drastic remedy which should be used only in ‘extreme situations’ or ‘exceptional circumstances.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).