LUCIEN v. JOHNSON

No. 94-1325.

61 F.3d 573 (1995)

Rudolph L. LUCIEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Watts C. JOHNSON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Cherney (submitted), Joseph A. Sullivan, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rudolph L. Lucien, Menard, IL, pro se.

Wallace Solberg, Barbara E. Pitts, Office of Atty. Gen., Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and BAUER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

Between 1987 and 1991, Rudolph Lucien, who is an inmate of the Illinois prison system, filed in the Illinois Court of Claims (705 ILCS 505; Andrew M. Raucci, "The Illinois Court of Claims: Its Purpose and Procedures," Ill. Bar J. Oct. 1989, p. 752) five claims for loss of personal property. The claims ranged in value from $76.14 to $558.91. None of the claims had been decided when in 1993 Lucien brought the present suit under 42 U.S.C....

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