Legal Opinion
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company, Cross-Appellant v. American Cyanamid Company, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 1990No. 89-3703, 89-3757PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
American Cyanamid Company, the defendant in this diversity tort suit governed by Illinois law, is a major manufacturer of chemicals, including acrylonitrile, a chemical used in large quantities in making acrylic fibers, plastics, dyes, pharmaceutical chemicals, and other intermediate and final goods. On January 2, 1979, at its manufacturing plant in Louisiana, Cyanam-id loaded 20,000 gallons of liquid acryloni-trile into a railroad tank car that it had leased from the North American Car Corporation. The next day, a train of the Missouri Pacific Railroad picked up the car…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Woodrow Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988
- State, Dept. of Environ. Protect. v. Ventron Corp.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1983
- Langlois v. Allied Chemical CorporationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
- Siegler v. KuhlmanWashington Supreme Court · 1972
- Robert Lee Williams v. Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, and Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General of the State of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1987
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3Cited by70 opinions
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- North Shore Gas Company v. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- United States v. Alemany RiveraCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1995
- Eljer Manufacturing, Incorporated v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Travelers Indemnity Company of Illinois, Intervening-Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- G.J. Leasing Company, Incorporated, Doing Business as Cahokia Marine Service and S.I. Enterprises, L.P. v. Union Electric CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
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