Legal Opinion
Taco Bell Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 5, 2004No. 03-2867, 03-2868, 03-3550PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Taco Bell has sued two insurance companies, Zurich and Continental, each of which had issued it a liability-insurance policy. The basis of federal jurisdiction is diversity of citizenship, and the substantive issues are governed, the parties tacitly agree, by Illinois law. The suit seeks a declaration that the insurance companies have a duty to pay for Taco Bell’s defense against a diversity lawsuit that has been brought against it in a federal district court in Michigan by a design agency named Wrench. (That suit has already given rise to nine judicial opinions,…
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