Legal Opinion

In Re Chicago Flood Litigation

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided May 6, 1993No. 93 C 1214PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CONLON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in these four consolidated eases 1 sue defendants Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (“Great Lakes”) and the City of Chicago (“the City”) to recover for damages incurred when the Chicago River broke through a breach in a freight tunnel lying beneath the river and then flooded a tunnel system underneath the city’s business district. The City moves to dismiss or stay this action pending the outcome of related state court litigation.

BACKGROUND

A year ago, widescale calamity struck Chicago for the second time in barely a century. The…

2Cases cited10 opinions

Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
Burford v. Sun Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
Interstate Material Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, on Its Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
James R. Laduke v. Burlington Northern Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989

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3Cited by2 opinions

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