Legal Opinion
Josephine Pizzo v. Bekin Van Lines Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 20, 2001No. 00-2750PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff sued the defendants under RICO, the Carmack Amendment, and Illinois consumer protection law and now appeals from the dismissal of her suit for failure to state a federal claim. As is customary, having dismissed the federal claims before trial the judge relinquished jurisdiction over the state claims (which we’ll call Pizzo’s “state-law fraud claim”), leaving the plaintiff free to refile them in state court.
The implausible allegations of the complaint are the only facts we have to go on, so we suppress our skepticism and assume their truth. Josephine Pizzo,…
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- Emil J. Bartholet v. Reishauer A.G. (Zurich) and Reishauer Corporation (Elgin)Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
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