Springman v. AIG Marketing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the maintenance for years of a suit against a party known by the plaintiff to be the wrong one to sue was an abuse of legal process”
• “[E]ven when the conditions for relation back are satisfied, a request to allow the complaint to be amended is addressed to the judge’s discretion.”
• “the maintenance for years of a suit against a party known by the plaintiff to be the wrong one to sue was an abuse of legal process”
• “If state law governs the statute of limitations defense, as it normally will in a diversity case, it makes sense to defer to the state law’s determination of when a claim accrues … .”
• “Illinois’s relation-back rule is identical to the federal rule.”
• calling a statute of limita tions “substantive”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).