Required, Permissible, and Impermissible Forms of Federal Judicial Assistance to Self-Represented Litigants: Toward Establishment of a Judicial Duty of Reasonable Assistance

Authors

Jona Goldschmidt, Loyola University ChicagoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Publication Title

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice

Volume

25

Issue

2

Pages

217-250

Abstract

In an effort to assist the judiciary in navigating the seemingly mixed messages coming from the Supreme Court, this paper reviews federal Circuit Court of Appeals case law which discusses required, permissible, and impermissible forms of judicial assistance to SRLs.

Comments

This article first appeared in the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 25, 2 (2019).

Recommended Citation

Goldschmidt, Jona. Required, Permissible, and Impermissible Forms of Federal Judicial Assistance to Self-Represented Litigants: Toward Establishment of a Judicial Duty of Reasonable Assistance. Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice, 25, 2: 217-250, 2019. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works,

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Copyright Statement

© 2019 Jona Goldschmidt. This article first appeared in the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 25, 2 (2019).