(Download) "Dickerson V. Board Of Education Of Ford Heights" by United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dickerson V. Board Of Education Of Ford Heights
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 12, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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KANNE, Circuit Judge. Mary Dickerson, who is seventy-seven years old, filed this age discrimination action against the Board of Education of Ford Heights, Illinois in August 1990. In 1993, after Dickerson had missed two deadlines to submit a pretrial order and had failed to advise the district court in advance of those deadlines that they could not be met, the district court dismissed the action for failure to prosecute. Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b). Rather than directly appealing that decision, Dickerson's counsel moved to vacate the dismissal, claiming that serious family problems had made it impossible for him to meet the court's deadlines. Following a hearing on counsel's motion, the district court refused to reinstate the case. Again Dickerson did not appeal, instead filing a motion requesting that the district court reconsider its decision not to reinstate the case. Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b). Dickerson now appeals the court's denial of the motion to reconsider. We affirm.