Legal Opinion
Andrea Geiger v. Donald Allen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1988No. 87-2172PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Andrea Geiger appeals from a district court order dismissing her diversity action against defendant Donald Allen. The district court dismissed Geiger’s action for failure to serve Allen within 120 days of filing her complaint, as mandated by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(j). We affirm.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
For purposes of this appeal, the details of Geiger’s underlying cause of action are irrelevant; we need only review the procedural history of this case. Geiger originally filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois on June 19,1986, naming…
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