Sheikh, Bashir v. Grant Regional Health Center

Filing 145

Transmission of Notice of Appeal, Docketing Statement, Appeal Information Sheet, Docket Sheet and Judgment to Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals re 144 Notice of Appeal. (Attachments: # 1 Information sheet, # 2 Docketing Statement, # 3 Disclosure statement, # 4 Order, # 5 Judgment, # 6 Docket sheet) (jef)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
Western DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN

Bashir Sheikh, M.D.,
Plaintiff,
Case No. 11 CV 1
vs.
Grant County Regional Health Center,
Defendant.

DOCKETING STATEMENT
PURSUANT TO CIRCUIT RULE 3(c)

The district court had jurisdiction of this action, which asserted claims
under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and various common-law tort
claims, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(3) and 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (general
federal question jurisdiction), 28 U.S.C § 1367 (supplemental jurisdiction)
and 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (diversity jurisdiction). The Plaintiff’s claims arose
within the geographic boundaries of the Western District of Wisconsin
within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b).
This Court has jurisdiction of this appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
The district court entered a Decision and Order granting the Defendants’
Motion for Summary Judgment and dismissing the Plaintiffs' federal law

claims, while declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the
Plaintiff’s state law claims and the Defendant’s state law counterclaim (dkt.
#119), on July 2, 2013. The court entered judgment dismissing the Plaintiff’s
federal law claims on their merits, and dismissing all parties’ state law claims
without prejudice (dkt. # 120), on July 3, 2014.
In response, the Plaintiff moved to continue jurisdiction over the state
law claims based on diversity jurisdiction (dkt. #122) and subsequently
demonstrated complete diversity existed at the time this action was
commenced (dkt. ##127-128). The Plaintiff demonstrated that he was at all
material times domiciled in the state of Illinois (dkt. #128), and the
Defendant demonstrated that it was incorporated and had its principal place
of business in the state of Wisconsin (dkt. #129). The district court was
satisfied that the amount in controversy exceeded “the sum or value of
$75,000” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
Accordingly, on November 5, 2013, the court vacated the July 3, 2013
judgment, vacated the dismissal of the parties’ state law claims and
reopened the case. The district court then entered a Decision and Order
granting the Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment, dismissing the
Plaintiffs' state law claims and finding for the Defendant on its state law
counterclaim (dkt. #138), on January 2, 2014. The district court entered

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judgment for the Defendant on January 31, 2014. The district court judgment
was final as to all of the claims and all of the parties before it.
No motion for a new trial, nor for alteration of the judgment, nor any
motion claimed to toll the time within which to appeal, has been filed since
the entry of the January 31, 2014 judgment. The Plaintiff timely filed this
appeal by electronically filing a Notice of Appeal in the district court clerk's
on February 28, 2014. There have been no prior or related appellate
proceedings except for a short-lived appeal from the July 3, 2013 judgment
which was assigned no. 13-3452, and withdrawn and dismissed after the
district court vacated the July 3, 2013 judgment.
Dated this Friday, February 28, 2014.
Respectfully submitted,
Bashir Sheikh, M.D.,
Plaintiff,
By
THE JEFF SCOTT OLSON LAW FIRM, S.C.
JEFF SCOTT OLSON
State Bar No. 1016284
131 W. Wilson St., Suite 1200
Madison, WI 53703
Phone:
[phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
E-mail:
[e-mail]

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/s/ Jeff Scott Olson
______________________________
JEFF SCOTT OLSON
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

Certificate of Service
I hereby certify that on Friday, February 28, 2014, I electronically filed the foregoing with
the Clerk of the Court using the ECF system which will send notification of such filing to
the following: Kevin John Eldridge, Michael Aldana, and Sarah Edehnan Coyne, and I
hereby certify that I have mailed by United States Postal Service the document to the
following non-ECF participants: none.

/s/ Jeff Scott Olson_______________

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