Legal Opinion
Thomas Spinozzi and Linda Spinozzi v. Itt Sheraton Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 1, 1999No. 97-4076PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Dr. Thomas Spinozzi, a dentist who lives and works in Illinois, and his wife Linda went to Acapulco on vacation. They stayed at a Sheraton hotel. Dr. Spinozzi fell into a maintenance pit on the hotel grounds and was seriously injured. He and his wife (the wife claiming loss of consortium) brought suit in a federal district court in Illinois, under the diversity jurisdiction, against the Mexican corpora tion that owns the hotel, and three affiliates of that corporation. The suit alleges negligence. It was dismissed on summary judgment. The district judge held that under…
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