Legal Opinion
Leister v. Dovetail, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 23, 2008No. 07-2242, 07-3615, 07-3671PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Sandra Leister, and the Petersons (the individual defendants) were employed by a company that sells “employee assistance programs” to employers; the programs provide counseling for troubled employees. In 1997 the Petersons bought some of their employer’s employee-assistance-program contracts and created the corporate defendant, Dovetail, of which the Petersons are the sole owners and officers. They hired Leister, a psychologist, to work for Dovetail, and the terms of employment included Dovetail’s agreeing to deposit a specified portion of her salary in a…
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