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8th Reinstates Dismissed Pro Se Case For Failing To Comply With Discovery
Smith v. Gold Dust Casino, ___F.3d___ (8th Cir. 2008), demonstrates just how difficult it is to get a case dismissed against a pro se litigant on a procedural ground. A pro se litigant was given several adjournments due to poor...

More vexation on the horizon for "vexatious litigant"
As if things weren't hard enough for Mitchell W. Roth. In January, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real of Los Angeles declared Roth a vexatious litigant and ordered him to refund fees to nine clients...

Sixth Circuit Rebuffs Foreclosed Pro Se Litigant
Our last post on Richard Davet, the Cleveland-area pro se litigant who staved off a foreclosure lawsuit for 11 years without making a mortgage payment — and whose story recently landed on Page One of WSJ — produced some strongly-worded comments on the state of our legal system and the nationwide foreclosure crisis...

District Court Rules That Plaintiff Is "Vexatious Litigant"; Dismisses Case
The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has held that a pre-filing injunction is appropriate in Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures, finding that the plaintiff is "a vexatious litigant...

S.C. Self-Represented Litigant Simple Divorce Packet
The S.C. Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission, along with S.C. Legal Services, the S.C. Bar and S.C. Court Administration, have just finalized the  Self-Represented Litigant Simple Divorce Packet...

Fourth District: Vexatious Litigants
This decision from the Fourth District upheld the constitutionality of portions of Florida's Vexatious Litigant Law. The case involved an inmate at a state prison who sued the prison's physician regarding a prescription...

Lawry's Restaurants Settles Sex Bias Lawsuit for $1 Million
Lawry's Restaurants Settles Sex Bias Lawsuit for $1Million

Wal-Mart
To Pay $17.5 Million To Settle Race Bias Suit

Employee Discrimination
Vanguard Group Inc. agrees to $500,000 racial bias settlement.

Age Discrimination
City of Independence awards two former employees a $65,000 age bias settlement.

Gender Bias
Las Vegas pays $500,000 settlement in harassment lawsuit.