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HARRINGTON v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 04-4326.

433 F.3d 542 (2005)

Richard F. HARRINGTON, Tavares Harrington, Tyjuan Kidd, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Officer Delgado, Officer Moran, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 3, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Lee Boyd, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Myriam Zreczny (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Thomas J. Platt, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Claims of excessive force by police officers are at the heart of this suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. However, before the merits could be heard, the repeated inattention of the plaintiffs' attorney to the case caused the district court to dismiss it for want of prosecution. The attorney, T. Lee Boyd, Jr., then moved, on behalf of his clients, to vacate the dismissal. The district court denied the motion, and we affirm.

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