Legal Opinion
Anthony Mathis v. New York Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 1998No. 96-3312PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Per curiam
Anthony Mathis provided inaccurate information on his application to proceed in forma pauperis. The district court, concluding that Mathis knowingly provided inaccurate information, dismissed Mathis’s complaint with prejudice as a sanction for his attempt to deceive the court. Mathis appeals that decision, arguing that his mistakes were inadvertent. We affirm.
Mathis filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis and a motion for appointment of counsel on May 9, 1995. The application to proceed in forma pauperis was denied because Mathis failed to answer all of the questions on the form…
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