Legal Opinion
Lopardo v. Fleming Companies
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 3, 1996No. Nos. 95-2694, 95-2771PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
A pier on Middle Lake, Lauderdale Lakes, Wisconsin, provides the backdrop for this decade-long saga between Richard and Catherine Lopardo, on the one hand, and the Godfrey Company and its affiliates, on the other. Our role in this diversity case is to decide whether the district court correctly awarded the relatively modest sum of $54,920 to the Lopardos as compensation for God-frey’s maintenance of a pier that interfered with their riparian rights — a decision that turns exclusively on Wisconsin law of riparian rights, nuisance, trespass, and damages. We must…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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