ESTATE OF MORELAND v. DIETER

No. 08-1478.

576 F.3d 691 (2009)

ESTATE OF Christopher A. MORELAND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Erich DIETER and Michael Sawdon, Defendants, and St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners, St. Joseph County, et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean W. Drew, I, Drew Law Office, Niles, MI, Mark R. Bendure (argued), Bendure & Thomas, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David E. Ballard, James F. Groves (argued), Lee, Groves & Zalas, South Bend, IN, for Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

Martin W. Kus, Newby, Lewis, Kaminski & Jones, LLP, Laporte, IN, for Defendants.

Before POSNER and SYKES, Circuit Judges, and DOW, District Judge.


DOW, District Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant, the Estate of Christopher Moreland (the "Estate"), filed a motion for a writ of execution to enforce a judgment against St. Joseph County, Indiana and its Board of Commissioners (the "County"), pursuant to Indiana Code § 34-13-4-1 and Rule 69 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The district court denied the Estate's motion. Because we conclude that the state law that the Estate seeks to invoke was not intended to...

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