Legal Opinion
Richard Dean Sawyer, III v. American Federation of Government Employees, Afl-Cio and John Sturdivant
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 4, 1999No. 98-9054PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to clarify the circumstances under which a record will suffice to indicate that a pro se litigant had sufficient awareness of the consequences of a summary judgment motion to permit its adjudication, despite lack of explicit notice by a moving party or a district court that such a motion will be granted if allegations of fact are not adequately controverted by affidavit. Richard D. Sawyer, III appeals pro se from the June 12; 1998, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Thomas P. Griesa, Chief…
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