Legal Opinion
Linda James v. McDonald Corporation, Simon Marketing, Incorporated, and Ante Enterprises Llc, Doing Business as McDonald Restaurant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2005No. 04-2383PublishedCited by 275 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Linda James filed this action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky alleging state law contract and tort claims against McDonald’s Corporation, Simon Marketing, Inc. and the owner-operators of two McDonald’s restaurants (collectively “McDonald’s”). The action was transferred to the Northern District of Illinois, under 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a), as part of the In re McDonald’s Corporation Promotional Game Litigation, No. MDL 1437, 2004 WL 549265 (N.D.Ill.2004), multi-district proceeding. The district court granted McDonald’s motion to compel…
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