Legal Opinion
James R. Sullivan v. James P. Conway and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 16, 1998No. 97-1978, 97-3504PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This case began in an Illinois state court as a suit for defamation and other torts brought by attorney James Sullivan against James Conway, an official of the electrical workers’ union, and against the union itself. The alleged defamation was that Conway had said that Sullivan was “a very poor lawyer.” The suit was removed to federal district court after the complaint was amended to add claims under federal labor law; and a preliminary question is whether the removal was untimely.
In a ease in which the original complaint does not disclose a ground for removal, the…
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