Legal Opinion
Morton Nesses v. Randall T. Shepard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 10, 1995No. 93-3928PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff in this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 had brought a suit for breach of contract in an Indiana state court and when he lost had sued the defendant’s lawyers, also in an Indiana state court, alleging abuse of process, and had lost that suit too—plus a third suit, also against those lawyers, also in an Indiana state court, also lost. The present suit is against the same lawyers plus some of the judges at the different stages of the Indiana litigation. It alleges a massive, tentacular conspiracy among the lawyers and the judges to engineer Nesses’ defeat by, among…
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