Legal Opinion
Onyango v. Downtown Entertainment, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 10, 2013No. Nos. 12-3752, 13-1083PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
We have consolidated two interlocutory appeals filed by Eric Onyango in his lawsuit against Downtown Entertainment. We dismiss both appeals for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.
Onyango paid $20 to enter a Chicago nightclub owned by Downtown Entertainment. Inside the club he encountered Ma-ciej Lampe (a Pole who plays professional basketball in Spain). Onyango (who is black) alleges that Lampe shoved him and hurled a racial epithet after asking Onyan-go to sell him drugs and being turned away. Security personnel then forcibly removed Onyango, but not Lampe. On-yango has sued Downtown…
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