Legal Opinion
Christopher Sojka, J v. Bovis Lend
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 10, 2012No. 11-2747PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Christopher Sojka, Jr. sustained severe eye injuries while working as a carpenter on the Trump Tower construction project. He sued Trump Tower’s construction manager, Bovis Lend Lease, asserting that it had been negligent. Bovis moved for summary judgment on the ground that it did not owe Sojka any duty of care to provide a safe workplace, and (jumping from the general to the particular) that even if it did, it had not breached such a duty because it had no knowledge that Sojka’s safety glasses were inadequate to prevent the injury. Sojka failed to address this argument in…
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