Legal Opinion
The Society of Lloyd's v. James Frederick Ashenden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 27, 2000No. 99-3195, 99-4064, 00-1066, 00-1371, 00-1430, 00-1702PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
These are diversity suits brought in the federal district court in Chicago by Lloyd’s, a foreign corporation (see Haynsworth v. The Corporation, 121 F.3d 956, 958 (5th Cir.1997)), against American members (“names”) of insurance syndicates that Lloyd’s manages. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2). Lloyd’s wanted to use the Illinois Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act, 735 ILCS 5/12-618 to 626, to collect money judgments, each for several hundred thousand dollars, that it had obtained against the defendants in an English court after the names’ repeated efforts in earlier…
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