Legal Opinion
John Williams v. State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 11, 2013No. 13-2652PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Per curiam
John Williams never served his complaint on the defendants in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Illinois law, and after more than a year the district court dismissed the suit for failure to prosecute. Williams appeals. We affirm the judgment.
Williams filed his complaint in October 2011 listing more than a hundred defendants, including the State of Illinois, its Attorney General, and Illinois State University. He alleges that university police officers arrested him without probable cause and that afterward other defendants pursued baseless criminal charges. After the suit had languished…
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