Legal Opinion
Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 28, 1988No. Nos. 87-1784, 87-1843PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This diversity case presents questions of federal jurisdiction and Illinois tort law in an unseemly setting of bank fraud and attorney misconduct. In the early 1970s Michael Sullivan, a successful real estate lawyer and broker and a stockholder of the Ford City Bank, would refer clients to William Quinn, an officer of the bank, for loans and other bank services. In exchange Quinn would refer legal business to Sullivan. (Sullivan may have violated the Illinois Code of Professional Responsibility, which in Canon 2 provides that “a lawyer shall not promise or give another…
2Cases cited42 opinions
- Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. KrogerSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Moor v. County of AlamedaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Bell v. City of MilwaukeeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- United States v. BorelliCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by27 opinions
- George Jones, Cross-Appellant v. City of Chicago, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
- Lloyd E. Williams, Jr. And Mildred A. Williams v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. W.R. Grace & Co. And Grace Petroleum CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
- Harbor Insurance Company v. Continental Bank CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- Harbor Insurance v. Continental Bank Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
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