Legal Opinion
Michael Tatom v. Ameritech Corporation and Ameritech Information Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 18, 2002No. 00-3843PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
After announcing his early retirement from Ameritech Corporation (“Ameritech”) in January 1997, Michael Tatom (“Tatom”) accepted a job with U.S. West. Because Ameritech considered U.S. West to be one
of its competitors, it informed Tatom that he would not be paid his annual incentive award for 1996. In addition, Ameritech decided to cancel the unvested stock options that the company had issued to Ta-tom pursuant to its Long Term Incentive Plan rather than to accelerate the vesting of those options; it also cancelled Tatom’s vested options as of the end of…
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