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Kelley Mala v. Crown Bay Marina

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Third Circuit
Citation
704 F.3d 239
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
418 of 418
Citing cases (total)
3,444
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Mala v. Crown Bay Marina remains good law: all 418 flagged citations have been read, and no adverse treatment was confirmed. The reviewed opinions consistently applied Mala's rules giving reasonable leeway and liberal construction to pro se litigants while still requiring sufficient factual allegations, compliance with procedural rules, and recognition that courts cannot act as counsel; other opinions applied its discretionary civil-counsel standard.
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Nearby treatment language concerned Shorter v. United States, Fisher v. Hollingsworth, Jones v. Bock, McGore v. Wrigglesworth, immunity, repealed statutes, objections, or other authorities rather than Mala.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

3,444 later cases cite Kelley Mala v. Crown Bay Marina; 418 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Every one of the 418 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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