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BARNES v. BLACK

No. 08-1703.

544 F.3d 807 (2008)

Dennis Earl BARNES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William J. BLACK and Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 12, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis E. Barnes (submitted), Fox Lake, WI, pro se.

Michael A. Walsh, Attorney (submitted), Erickson, Davis, Murphy, Johnson, Griffith & Walsh, Decatur, IL, Richard Briles Moriarty, Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, injured in an automobile accident, filed a diversity suit in a federal district court in Illinois against the driver of the other car and the driver's insurer, charging negligence. After the accident but before the suit (which remains pending in the district court) was filed, the plaintiff had been convicted in a Wisconsin state court of burglary and sentenced to prison, where he remains...

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