Legal Opinion
Berwick Grain Company, Inc., and David McCrery Jr. v. Illinois Department of Agriculture, Rebecca Doyle, Thomas E. Jennings
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1999No. 98-3394PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Twenty-five months after the district court entered final judgment against them, Berwick Grain Company, Inc. (“Berwick”), and company president David McCrery, Jr., returned to the district court and moved to reopen their civil rights case against several employees of the Illinois Department of Agriculture. By then our own judgment affirming the district court had been final for more than 1Ó months, and so understandably the district court questioned the timeliness of the plaintiffs’ request. The court denied it, not only because it was late but also because it lacked…
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