Legal Opinion
Lee Thomas Lynk v. Laporte Superior Court No. 2, Hon. Don E. Harner, and Linley E. Pearson, Attorney General of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 1986No. 85-1526PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from a judgment for the defendants in a suit under section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, requires us to consider perplexing issues concerning the relationship between federal and state courts, arising in an unusual factual setting. A man serving a life sentence in an Indiana prison wants a divorce, has filed for divorce, and now has turned to the federal courts for assistance in moving the divorce proceeding along to judgment. There was a time when states didn’t allow a man to use his crimes as the basis for getting a divorce and when…
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