Tatum C. Singletary v. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• equitable tolling \permits a plaintiff to sue after the statute of limitations has expired if through no fault or lack of diligence on his part he was unable to sue before\
• “AEDPA imposes a one-year statute of limitations on habeas 10 corpus petitions filed by state prisoners in federal court.”
• equitable estoppel would not apply even when a bank likely knew that a plaintiff had not taken out a loan from it but refused to admit that fact to the plaintiff
• “If a plaintiff wants to retain a nondiverse defendant, it is no business of the court to tell him he can’t; the court’s job in such a case is to tell the plaintiff that he can’t stay in federal court.”
• under Illinois law, “a lender is not his borrower’s fiduciary.”
• when a plaintiff “receives a right-to-sue letter from the 10 state agency, thereby becoming entitled to an EEOC right-to-sue letter, the plaintiff need 11 not file a separate complaint with the EEOC nor receive an EEOC right-to-sue letter in 12 order to file suit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).