Legal Opinion
Gavoni v. Dobbs House, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 13, 1999No. Nos. 97-3806, 97-3875PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, Barbara Gavoni, Angela Ro-sendale and Lela Jordan, worked together as manicurists and hair dressers at a salon in La Crosse, Wisconsin and attended a cosmetology convention at a Chicago-area hotel owned and operated by the defendant, Dobbs House. On the morning of March 29, 1993, the plaintiffs and another convention attendee boarded an elevator on the eighth floor hoping and expecting to go down to the lobby. Their hopes were dashed — literally and figuratively. The elevator went up to the eleventh floor, stopped briefly, descended to the lower lobby at…
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