What is the test for pleading in a pro se proceeding case?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Johnson v. Mitchell, No. CIV S-10-1968 GEB GGH PS (E.D. Cal. 2011):
Procedural requirements serve an important function in the orderly conduct of litigation, and pro se litigants are expected to comply with procedural rules. See McNeil v. United States, 508 U.S. 106, 113 (1993) ("[W]e have never suggested that procedural rules in ordinary civil litigation should be interpreted so as to excuse mistakes by those who proceed without counsel"). Thus, even though pleadings are liberally construed in their favor, pro se
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