Legal Opinion
Hyatt International Corp. v. Gerardo Coco
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 3, 2002No. 01-1709PublishedCited by 380 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
It has become commonplace to observe that the world is getting smaller and that boundary lines between one country and the next have become blurred, if not nonexistent. Yet those boundary lines still exist, and one of their more important functions is to allocate litigation among the several national court systems. This can be tricky, if a business relationship that has flowed seamlessly from one country to another goes sour. We have just such a case. Gerardo Coco, an Italian businessman who had dealings with Hyatt International Corporation. (Hyatt) in Chicago…
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