POSNER, Circuit Judge. In 1980 Stephen Ustrak, who was then an inmate of an Illinois state prison, brought a civil rights suit against the warden. At the request of the district court, see 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (d), the law firm of Pelini Sheffler undertook to represent Ustrak, and in 1981 filed an amended complaint seeking almost $1 milli…
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