Hudson v. Cobbs

DISSENT FROM THE DENIAL OF APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR REHEARING

Hopefully there will never be a case where a party litigant has been treated to such a display of judicial error as has been visited upon Wayne Hudson, the plaintiff. In a nutshell, the district court destroyed his case by trying to help him — notwithstanding that he was represented by competent counsel. The district court, of its own volition and aided by a law clerk and certainly acting on no instigation by the defendants or their counsel, came to the conclusion that Mr. Hudson’s counsel was pursuing redress on what the district…