Legal Opinion
Atkins v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 2011No. 09-2998PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*826POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is the second appeal from the dismissal of a federal civil rights suit. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court initially dismissed it under Rule 25(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, on the ground that the motion to substitute the plaintiffs widow for the (original) plaintiff, who died while the suit was pending, was untimely. We reversed, 547 F.3d 869 (7th Cir.2008), instructing the district judge to allow the substitution. That kept the case alive, but the judge has again dismissed it, this time on the merits — he ruled that the complaint failed to state…
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