Legal Opinion
Richard Worthington, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Dave Wilson and Jeff Wall, and Village of Peoria Heights, Defendant/cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 1993No. 92-2273, 92-2425PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, Richard Worthington claimed that while being arrested the arresting officers purposely injured him. When he filed suit on the day the statute of limitations expired, he named “three unknown named police officers” as defendants. Worthington later sought to amend the complaint to substitute police officers Dave Wilson and Jeff Wall for the unknown officers. The district court concluded that the relation back doctrine of Fed. R.Civ.P. 15(c) did not apply, and dismissed the - amended complaint. Worthington v. Wilson, 790 F.Supp. 829…
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