Legal Opinion
Hutchinson ex rel. Baker v. Spink
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 1997No. 96-1842PublishedCited by 261 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Andrew Michael Baker was a disabled child who was killed in a horrifying way while he was under the care of the foster parents to whom he was entrusted by representatives of Wisconsin’s Grant County Department of Social Services. His mother, Linda Hutchinson, along with her co-plaintiffs, tried to *897bring this action in federal court as indigents, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The district court rejected her motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP), not because it found fault with her allegations of indigence (which it accepted), but because it found that her…
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