Legal Opinion
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, Counterdefendant-Appellee v. City of Chicago, Counterplaintiffs-Appellees v. Commercial Union Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2001No. 99-3777, 99-3844, 99-3877 and 00-4295PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Chicago Flood of 1992 occurred when the Chicago River sprung a leak and drained into a tunnel system connecting many buddings in the Loop. Events were set in motion in August and September 1991, when Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. replaced the pilings (“dolphins”) protecting the Kinzie Street Bridge. Because of Great Lakes’ carelessness, poor maps or other directions provided by the City, or a combination of events, Great Lakes drove dolphins into the riverbed immediately above one of the tunnels that had been built almost a century earlier to move coal and other…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Jerome B. Grubart, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
- General Motors Corp. v. Devex Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
- West Virginia v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- City of Milwaukee v. Cement Division, National Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Grinnell Select Insurance Company v. Martha BakerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
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