United States Seventh Circuit

Defeated incumbent's section 1983 claim was improperly dismissed as untimely. Her claim accrued on the date on which she lost the election, not the date police seized the fraudulent ballots; the "operative decision" occurred when the state officials decided to commingle the fraudulent ballots with the legitimate ballots.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/27/2003
• Decided 05/10/2004
• Published 05/10/2004

Judges

• DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before ROVNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Morris L. Harvey (argued), Mt. Vernon, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph J. Neely,Neely & Neely, Metropolis, IL, C. David Nelson, Harrisburg, IL, Thomas F. Crosby, Winters, Brewster, Crosby & Schafer, Marion, IL, Jeffrey A. Goffinet, Brandon, Schmidt, Goffinet & Solverson, Carbondale, IL, Robert H. Howerton, Howerton, Dorris, Stone & Phelps, Ronald E. Osman, Osman & Associates, Marion, IL, Patrick J. O'Hara (argued), Cavanagh & O'Hara, Springfield, IL, John Randall Patchett, Mark A. Kochan, Marion, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.