Lee v. Cook County, Ill.

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• filing of a suit later dismissed without prejudice does not toll the statute of limitations
• court may sever claims under Fed. R. Civ. P. 21 when differences between the claims predominate over common questions
• “Whether the Cook County prison system discriminates against black employees when making promotions is a question common to all plaintiffs’ claims.”
• “When a federal civil action is severed, it is not dismissed.”
• “When a federal civil action is severed [under Rule 21], it is 7 not dismissed. Instead, the clerk of court creates multiple docket numbers for the action already 8 on file, and the severed claims proceed as if suits had been filed separately.”
• “A law- yer’s ineptitude does not support equitable tolling.”

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