Legal Opinion
Carr v. Tillery
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 12, 2010No. 09-1124, 09-1168PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Rex Carr, a successful class action lawyer in southern Illinois, is locked in mortal combat with his former law partners, the defendants in a RICO case (with a supplemental state-law claim, 28 U.S.C. § 1367) that he brought in federal district court. The dispute is over the division of legal fees in cases handled by the law firm (Carr Korein Tillery, LLC) before it broke up; Carr is seeking some $20 million in compensatory damages alone. The district court dismissed the entire case, supplemental claim and all, under Rule 12(b)(6) (failure to state a claim), on the ground…
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