Legal Opinion
Extra Equipamentos E Exportaçáo Ltda. v. Case Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 3, 2008No. 06-4389, 07-1794, 07-2484PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Extra, a Brazilian distributor, sued Case, a large U.S. manufacturer of farm and construction equipment, in the federal district court in Chicago, charging fraud. Jurisdiction was based on 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2), because the suit was between a citizen of a state (Case) and citizens of a foreign country (Extra and its boss — the latter no longer a party). The law governing the substantive issues in the case is agreed to be that of Illinois. The district judge dismissed the suit on the ground that Case Brasil & Cia — Case’s wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary — was an…
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