Court Opinion

ID: 9495023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:52:54.836447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:46.548896
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WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
As the majority opinion makes clear, the district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Coleman’s' case for her failure to properly comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4, and so we must affirm its decision. Doing so, however, troubles me, given the circumstances of this case. As Judges Posner and Evans point out, there is no doubt that the defendants had notice of Coleman’s suit and given the short statute of limitations governing Coleman’s Title VII claim, I believe that the better course would have been to let the suit proceed. However, the district court considered all the reasons that Coleman raised in seeking an extension under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 4(m) and rejected them, so given our holding in Troxell v. Fedders of North America, Inc., 160 F.3d 381, 383 (7th Cir.1998), I cannot find an abuse of discretion.