United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a motion to vacate a dismissal of a civil rights suit for failure to prosecute is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in the denial since the record did not reveal any permissible justification to excuse plaintiffs' attorney's failures to appear before the district court and his inattention to discovery obligations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/02/2005
• Decided 01/03/2006
• Published 01/03/2006

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• T. Lee Boyd, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• 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.