460
Opinion of the Court
family-account claim is not of that order. No reasonable construction of complaint-processing rules, in sum, would allow a litigant situated as Kontrick is to defeat a claim, as filed too late, after the party has litigated and lost the case on the merits.
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For the reasons stated, the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is
Affirmed.
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