Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Bruce
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 2010No. 09-2866PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
In January 2009, Larry Wilson, a federal prisoner, filed a nine-count complaint relating to various incidents that allegedly took place during his pretrial detention at two different Illinois prisons between August 2007 and January 2008. The district court twice struck Wilson’s complaint for violating Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20(a)(2), ruling that he was joining unrelated claims against different defendants in one lawsuit; each time, it instructed Wilson to file an amended complaint that complied with the rule or face dismissal of his lawsuit. The first time, Wilson responded by…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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