Legal Opinion
Benson v. United States
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 7, 1997No. 96 C 7886PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ALE SI A, District Judge.
Before the court is defendants United States of America and Tony Morton’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(b). For the reasons that follow, the court grants defendants’ motion.
I. BACKGROUND 1
Plaintiff William J. Benson was convicted in December 1989 of tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, and began serving his four-year sentence on May 29, 1990. Benson was scheduled to be paroled on September 27, 1991. Shortly before that date, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Benson’s…
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