Legal Opinion
Shannon L. Haslund v. Simon Property Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 2, 2004No. 03-3658PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In a diversity suit for breach of contract governed by Illinois law, the district judge after a bench trial awarded Shannon Has-lund $537,634.41 in damages, plus prejudgment interest, against Simon Property Group (SPG). 284 F.Supp.2d 1102 (N.D.Ill.2003). SPG’s appeal argues that the provision of the contract that it was found to have violated was too indefinite to be enforceable, that no injury was proved, and that in any event no prejudgment interest should have been awarded.
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, SPG, a real estate company that operates hundreds of…
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