Legal Opinion
Barnes v. Black
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 12, 2008No. 08-1703PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, injured in an automobile accident, filed a diversity suit in a federal district court in Illinois against the driver of the other car and the driver’s insurer, charging negligence. After the accident but before the suit (which remains pending in the district court) was filed, the plaintiff had been convicted in a Wisconsin state court of burglary and sentenced to prison, where he remains, making it difficult for him to litigate his federal suit, especially because he has no lawyer. So he asked the clerk of the district court to issue a writ of habeas…
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