Butler v. Illinois Department of Transportation

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ELAINE E. BUCKLO, District Judge.

Plaintiff Dion Paul Butler filed a first amended complaint (“the complaint”) against defendant the Illinois Department of Transportation (“IDOT”). The defendant has moved to dismiss under FED. R. CIV. P. 12(b)(6). For the following reasons, the motion is granted in part and denied in part.

I

The complaint alleges plaintiff was employed by IDOT as a “Night Highway Maintainer” from September 1999 until April 2004. During the course of his employment plaintiff was involved in four separate automobile accidents in which third-parties…