Legal Opinion
Frank Thomas v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 17, 2002No. 01-3169PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in this ERISA suit for additional severance pay appeals from the dismissal of the suit with prejudice as a sanction for his having misrepresented his financial condition in his application to be permitted to proceed in forma pauperis. In response to the question on the application whether he was expecting to receive any money in the future, he failed to state that he had just nine days earlier directed the defendant to distribute to him the $73,714 in his vested company retirement account in a lump sum minus applicable taxes. The defendant sent him a check…
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