Romane J. Rickels v. City of South Bend, Indiana, Fara P. Evans

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

In the course of litigation against the police of South Bend, Indiana, Romane Riekels served discovery requests on Fara Evans, an attorney who had represented him in litigation against his former wife. The district court denied Riekels’ requests to subpoena Evans and to add her as a party, ruling that any dispute Riekels had with Evans is unrelated to his grievance against the police and lacks an independent basis of federal jurisdiction. Riekels persisted, serving additional discovery requests that drove Evans to seek a protective order, which the district judge…