Legal Opinion
DeGuelle v. Camilli
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2013No. 12-2541PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, DeGuelle, an accountant, was employed between 1997 and 2009 in the tax department of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., a large Wisconsin manufacturer of cleaning supplies. He alleges that while employed there he discovered that the company had committed tax fraud. The company fired him, then sued him in a Wisconsin state court for breach of contract, conversion, and defamation, all arising from his having taken confidential corporate tax documents with him when he was fired and having publicly accused the company, in the media (a newspaper), of tax fraud. He…
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