Legal Opinion
J.D. Edwards & Company v. Randy Podany and Mercer Management Consulting, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 22, 1999No. 98-2486PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A company had a contract to sell computer services. The buyer broke the contract, but the seller’s suit, a diversity suit governed, so far as substantive issues are concerned, by the law of Illinois, is not against the buyer; it is against a consulting firm (and a former employee of the firm) that advised the buyer and was responsible for the buyer’s decision to break its contract with the seller. The defendants are accused of having committed the tort of deliberately inducing a breach of contract. HPI Health Care Services, Inc. v. Mt. Vernon Hospital, Inc., 131 Ill.2d…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Zafiro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- HPI Health Care Services, Inc. v. Mt. Vernon Hospital, Inc.Illinois Supreme Court · 1989
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