RICKELS v. CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA

No. 93-3046.

33 F.3d 785 (1994)

Romane J. RICKELS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, Defendant, Fara P. Evans, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Romane J. Rickels, pro se.

Gaylen W. Allsop, Allsop & Crawford, South Bend, IN, for appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

In the course of litigation against the police of South Bend, Indiana, Romane Rickels served discovery requests on Fara Evans, an attorney who had represented him in litigation against his former wife. The district court denied Rickels' requests to subpoena Evans and to add her as a party, ruling that any dispute Rickels had with Evans is unrelated to his grievance against the police and lacks an independent basis of federal jurisdiction...

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