Legal Opinion
Williams Electronics Games, Inc. v. James M. Garrity
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 19, 2007No. 05-4006, 05-4010PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Williams, the manufacturer of Mortal Kombat and other video games, brought this suit for fraud and related misconduct against two of its components suppliers (and a salesman for one of them), charging them with having bribed one of Williams’s buyers in violation of both federal and state law. The judge dismissed all the federal claims before or during trial. But he allowed several state law claims to go to the jury, which awarded Williams modest damages ($76,000) against Garrity on one of the claims (fraud) but rejected the other claims and exonerated all the other…
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