United States Second Circuit

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(c) does not requires courts to inquire into the necessity of appointing a guardian ad litem absent verifiable evidence of mental incapacity, and the district court did not err in failing to appoint counsel for a pro se litigant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2002
• Decided 03/21/2003
• Published 03/28/2003

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, MINER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan H. Romberg (Janet M. Zicarelli and Peter Choy, law students, argued and on the brief) Center for Social Justice, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, N.J., for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carmelo Grimaldi, Kaufman, Schneider & Bianco, LLP, Jericho, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.