Legal Opinion
Deborah Petersen v. Byron Gibson, Officer, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2004No. 02-4271, 02-4355PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
It is rare that a trip to the hair salon leads to a date in federal appellate court, but that was the unfortunate sequel to Deborah Petersen’s hair appointment at the Mario Tricoci Salon in Bloomingdale’s Stratford Square Mall on June 13, 1995. Ms. Petersen, a regular customer of the salon, had an appointment to get her hair colored. All did not go as planned, however, and after three hours and two attempts to correct a botched coloring job, Petersen was left under a hair dryer while her stylist went to lunch. When the treatment began to burn her scalp and her stylist…
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