United States Seventh Circuit

In an employment and age discrimination case against the Chicago Teachers Union and several of its officers, district court's denial of plaintiff's second motion to reopen is reversed where: 1) by granting an earlier motion to reopen, the court lulled plaintiff into thinking he didn't have to refile his complaint; and 2) lulling a pro se litigant provides a valid basis for invoking equitable tolling to stop the running of the statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/02/2009
• Published 09/02/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Earl K. Prince (submitted), Chicago, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wayne B. Giampietro (submitted), Stitt, Klein, Daday, Aretos & Giampietro, Arlington Heights, IL, Theodore Dallas, for Defendants-Appellees.