Legal Opinion
Thomas J. Tacket v. Delco Remy Division of General Motors Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 1991No. 89-3496PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
According to the age-old children’s rhyme, “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you.” Plaintiff-appellee Thomas Tacket and the law of defamation, however, argue otherwise. According to Tacket, another mellifluous rhyme, one that read “TACKET TACKET WHAT A RACKET,” when painted on the inside wall of General Motors’, Anderson, Indiana, assembly plant and allowed to remain there for seven or eight months, defamed him and irreparably damaged his reputation.
In this appeal, we revisit a case that we remanded to the district court in 1987. In the…
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- Elliott v. RoachIndiana Court of Appeals · 1980
- Patton v. JacobsIndiana Court of Appeals · 1948
- Idris Ibrahim Siddiqi v. Spencer Leak, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Cook County Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
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- Moore v. University of Notre DameDistrict Court, N.D. Indiana · 1997
- Thomas J. Tacket v. General Motors Corporation, Delco Remy DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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