Bhupendra Shah v. Inter-Continental Hotel Chicago Operating Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district judge dismissed Shah’s suit for failure to state a claim, precipitating this appeal, which presents a number of procedural issues. According to the allegations of the complaint, stripped of extraneous detail, the plaintiff and a partner had leased space from the defendant for the operation of two gift shops in hotels owned by the defendant in Chicago. The defendant decided to merge the two hotels, which were next door to each other at 505 and 535 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and convert the two gift shops into a single, larger gift shop to serve the…
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