Legal Opinion
Lois Jones v. Thomas Brennan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 14, 2006No. 04-3528PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Lois Jones filed this suit pro se in federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against several Cook County, Illinois, probate judges, the county’s public guardian, two of his deputies, and four private lawyers whom the probate court had appointed to be guardians ad litem. Jones claimed that the defendants had conspired to deprive her of property without due process of law in the course of probate proceedings involving her father’s estate. Her father was living when the proceedings began, but was incapable of handling his affairs, apparently because of dementia and…
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