Maybe Mr. Chen won't go to Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the case of a man representing himself in his battle with the city of Baltimore over a rowhouse that has now been torn down, The Wall Street Journal's Brent Kendall and Colleen Wilson report. But Bobby Chen is missing and can't be found at his last known address. His email account is no longer functioning.
While Chen can't be found and his brief is due just in a few days, lawyers for the city of Baltimore are preparing their defense just in case, the WSJ reports.
At issue in the case is not "the demolition issue but to provide clarity on when judges have discretion to give litigants more time. ... Chen said he encountered delays and difficulty in serving legal papers on Baltimore officials. One judge gave him a time extension, but the case was transferred to another who dismissed the suit because ... Chen missed a deadline."
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