Legal Opinion
Carol Lebeau v. Taco Bell, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 27, 1989No. 88-3521PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff has appealed from an order making explicit what was previously implicit: that an earlier order dismissing her case dismissed it with prejudice. The plaintiff now attempts, in effect, to argue that the earlier order dismissing her case was an abuse of discretion. She must lose, because we have no jurisdiction to consider the merits of the earlier order, and because the later order was correct.
The plaintiff, Carol LeBeau, first filed this lawsuit in an Illinois court, claiming that she had suffered over $15,000 in damages on account of biting a…
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