Legal Opinion
Ronald D. Smart, Doing Business as Paschall Electric v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 702
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 2003No. 02-1102PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in this racial discrimination case appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, a local of the electrical workers union. Two plaintiffs are listed, but one is a sole proprietorship and the other the proprietor, so they are one, not two, in the eyes of the law (with an irrelevant exception for cases in which an individual is charged under RICO with using for nefarious ends an enterprise consisting of a sole proprietorship, McCullough v. Suter, 757 F.2d 142, 143-44 (7th Cir.1985)), and the one is the proprietor, Ronald Smart, not the…
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