Legal Opinion
Fredric Karl Saecker v. William H. Thorie and Doar, Drill & Skow, S.C.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 12, 2000No. 00-2257PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity suit for legal malpractice, and at once we confront an issue of federal subject-matter jurisdiction. The plaintiffs jurisdictional statement, in violation of 7th Cir. R. 28(a)(1), does not indicate the state of citizenship of either the plaintiff or the defendants, who compound the error in their jurisdictional statement by failing both to point out the error and to supply the missing information. From the record it is apparent that the plaintiff is a citizen of Minnesota and the individual defendant a citizen of Wisconsin; but what of the law-firm…
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