Legal Opinion
James Dakuras, Sr. v. Robert Edwards
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2002No. 02-1563PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed this diversity fraud suit on the ground that the key defendant was a citizen of the same state as the plaintiff, namely Illinois. According to allegations of the complaint that for purposes of this appeal we are required to treat as true, repressing our natural skepticism, the plaintiff, James Dakuras, and a defendant, Ella Calder, who was rightly deemed an indispensable party by the district judge, lived together in Illinois in a simulacrum of marriage. After Calder had a stroke, her relatives, who are Ohioans (and who are the other…
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