Legal Opinion
Rex A. Workman v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 12, 2000No. 00-2159PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity suit, governed by Indiana law and resolved in favor of the defendant on summary judgment, for breach of contract and promissory estoppel. The plaintiff is an employee of UPS who claims that the company made a binding promise not to demote him without just cause and broke its promise. A threshold question is whether the stakes exceed (more precisely, whether it is legally possible that they exceed, The Barbers, Hairstyling for Men & Women, Inc. v. Bishop, 132 F.3d 1203, 1205 (7th Cir.1997)) $75,000; if they do not, the district court had no…
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