CASE PREVIEW · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Swoope v Hubbard
Postjudgment relitigation and recusal in a § 1983 suit
Decided
The citation
Swoope v Hubbard, order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, entered October 28, 2026 (Case No. 26-10616)
From the case summary
After a state-court malpractice suit against former attorney Alexandria Taylor and her firm ended unfavorably, Swoope sued them and others pro se, asserting a § 1983 joint-action theory involving private counsel and state officials. The court dismissed the clerk’s office as an improper defendant and…
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