Legal Opinion
Aguirre v. Turner Construction Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 2009No. 08-3999PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a tort suit brought in federal district court under the diversity jurisdiction by a bricklayer (and his wife, who is claiming loss of consortium). It is governed, so far as the substantive issues are concerned, by Illinois law. The plaintiff was seriously injured when he fell off a scaffold while working on the renovation of Soldier Field, the big Chicago athletic stadium. His employer was the A.L.L. Masonry company, but his suit is not against his employer — against which he could seek a remedy only under workers’ compensation law. It is against four…
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- Metz v. Central Illinois Electric & Gas Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1965
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