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Sanders v. Melvin
25 F.4th 475 (7th Cir. 2022)

The Court (Kanne/Brennan/Kirsch, with Kanne writing) reversed the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit based on a finding of fraud. The Court acknowledges that fraud is grounds to dismiss a lawsuit, but in this case, the district court had drawn too many adverse inferences about what the pleading was saying (i.e., he was alleging inadequate mental health care, which may still have been true even if his records contained purported progress notes). The opinion has good language about the more lenient standard that is required for Complaints filed pro se.

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