The recently decided case of Idlibi v. Hartford Courant Company (SC 20800) is a law school class on how a self-represented party should be treated in Connecticut's courts. Both the decision, by Justice McDonald, and the dissent, by Justices Ecker and D'Auria, are exhaustive, going into excruciating detail on the rights and obligations of the party who chooses to represent him or herself and how the courts should deal with that party. Given that both parts of the decision are so thorough and so well-presented, the result is that from a precedential standpoint, the argument is still out there, largely undecided, although the decision itself has obviously been made by a majority of the court.