Legal Opinion
Melvin D. Reed v. The Great Lakes Companies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 2003No. 02-3371PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Melvin Reed, the plaintiff in this Title VII religious-discrimination suit, appeals from the grant of summary judgment to his former employer, Great Lakes, and from the imposition of sanctions on him. His lawyer wants the $500 sanction imposed on her also reversed, but she failed to file a notice of appeal and the notice of appeal that she filed on behalf of Reed does not mention her sanction. Although Fed. RApp. P. 3(c)(4) provides that an appeal should not be dismissed “for failure to name a party whose intent to appeal is otherwise clear from the notice [of appeal],”…
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