Legal Opinion
S Industries, Inc. v. Stone Age Equipment, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 23, 1998No. 96 C 4951PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
CASTILLO, District Judge.
This lawsuit presents serious issues about the ethics of the plaintiffs principal and his counsel. “S Industries, Inc..., appears to have entered into a new industry — that of instituting federal litigation.” S Indus., Inc. v. Hobbico, Inc., 940 F.Supp. 210, 211 (N.D.Ill.1996) (Shadur, J.). To this we might add litigation lacking in merit and approaching harassment. Of the five merits-related decisions spawned by S Industries’ (“SI”) 1996 trademark litigation siege, three have entered summary judgment against SI and two have seriously…
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