Legal Opinion
MacFarlan v. Board of Education School District 65 Evanston Skokie
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 18, 2012No. 12 C 1137PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MILTON I. SHADUR, Senior District Judge.
Counsel for plaintiff Deborah MacFarlan (“MacFarlan”) has employed the common, though conceptually flawed (see NAACP v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co., 978 F.2d 287, 291-93 (7th Cir.1992)), practice of dividing her Amended Complaint (“AC”) into a number of counts that assert different theories of recovery (causes of action), rather than the federal concept of separate “claims” spoken of in Fed.R.Civ.P. (“Rule”) 10(b) and elsewhere in the Rules.
All defendants — Board of Education of School District 65 (“District 65”), Haven Middle…
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