Legal Opinion
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Transport Corp. of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 21, 2012No. 11-3577PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Injured by a bribery and kickback scheme hatched by a dishonest employee and some transportation companies, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., fought back with two lawsuits. The first was a civil lawsuit in Wisconsin state court, in which it raised several tort claims against a number of transportation companies. This is the second one, filed against different defendants in federal court. Relying on the court’s diversity jurisdiction, S.C. Johnson raised a number of state-law claims, including one based on the state law prohibiting bribery and another under Wisconsin’s counterpart…
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