Legal Opinion
Boogaard v. National Hockey League
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 18, 2015No. 13 C 4846PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GARY FEINERMAN, United States District Judge
The personal representative of the estate of Derek Boogaard (for ease of exposition, the court will pretend that Boogaard himself is the plaintiff) brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against the National Hockey League, its Board of Governors, and Commissioner Gary Bettman (collectively, “NHL”), alleging what the complaint took pains to characterize as Illinois tort law claims. Doc. 1-1. The NHL removed the suit to this court on the ground that the claims were completely preempted by § 301 of…
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