Legal Opinion
Williams v. Adams
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 2011No. 10-3044PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by this appeal is: when is it proper to dismiss a suit because the plaintiff failed to pay a sanction if the only reason for the failure is that he doesn’t have the money to pay it?
The plaintiff had filed this lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against four police officers who he claimed had arrested him without probable cause and in doing so had assaulted him (causing facial scars that made it impossible for him to follow his vocation of cosmetologist/educator), all in violation of his rights under the Fourth Amendment. The judge allowed him to…
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- Tate v. ShortSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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