Richard Worthington, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Dave Wilson and Jeff Wall, and Village of Peoria Heights, Defendant/cross-Appellant

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1993-11-12

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MANION, Circuit Judge. In his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint, Richard Worthington claimed that while being arrested the arresting officers purposely injured him. When he filed suit on the day the statute of limitations expired, he named “three unknown named police officers” as defendants. Worthington later sought to amend the complaint to subs…

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