Legal Opinion
Mary Dickerson v. Board of Education of Ford Heights, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 1994No. 93-2207PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Mary Dickerson, who is seventy-seven years old, filed this age discrimination action against the Board of Education of Ford Heights, Illinois in August 1990. In 1993, after Dickerson had missed two deadlines to submit a pretrial order and had failed to advise the district court in advance of those deadlines that they could not be met, the district court dismissed the action for failure to prosecute. Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b). Rather than directly appealing that decision, Dickerson’s counsel moved to vacate the dismissal, claiming that serious family problems had made it…
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