Legal Opinion
Jon Riley Hays v. Bryan Cave LLP
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 3, 2006No. 05-2154PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a case of some novelty but little difficulty. The plaintiff brought suit in an Illinois court, charging the defendants, a law firm and its lawyers who had represented him in a federal criminal case (he was convicted, and did not appeal, and the denial of his motion for postconviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was affirmed in Hays v. United States, 397 F.3d 564 (7th Cir.2005)), with legal malpractice under Illinois common law. The defendants removed the case to federal district court on the ground that it really arose under federal law because, as the district…
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