Adams, Thomas v. Catrambone, Richard ( 2004 )


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  •                               In the
    United States Court of Appeals
    For the Seventh Circuit
    ____________
    No. 03-2408
    THOMAS ADAMS,
    Plaintiff-Appellant,
    v.
    RICHARD CATRAMBONE and GREAT LAKES BUILDING
    MATERIALS, INC.,
    Defendants-Appellees.
    ____________
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
    No. 02 C 8700—Edward A. Bobrick, Magistrate Judge.
    ____________
    ARGUED JANUARY 7, 2004—DECIDED FEBRUARY 19, 2004
    ____________
    Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and MANION and EVANS,
    Circuit Judges.
    MANION, Circuit Judge. Thomas Adams appeals from
    the dismissal of his claims that both Richard Catrambone
    and Great Lakes Building Materials, Incorporated (“Great
    Lakes“) withheld his pay in violation of the Illinois Wage
    Payment and Collection Act, 815 ILCS 115/1, et seq. (“Wage
    Act“), and that Catrambone interfered with Adams’s pros-
    pective economic advantage and breached a fiduciary duty
    to Adams. We reverse and remand for further proceedings
    as to all three claims.
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    I.
    As this is an appeal from a dismissal under Federal
    Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), we assume the truth of
    the allegations in the complaint. In doing so, we in no
    way vouch for the truth of the allegations, in particular the
    serious charges that Catrambone engaged in corruption by
    siphoning off corporate assets. At the time of Great Lakes’s
    1
    formation in July 2001, Adams and Catrambone intended
    that Adams would become a 50% shareholder in the com-
    pany. On October 1, 2001, Adams paid $50,000 for his stock
    interest in Great Lakes and became a full-time employee of
    the company, working primarily as a salesman. At some
    point (the exact date is unclear from the complaint), Adams
    actually became a 50% owner and vice president of the
    company. Adams did substantial work in 2001 and 2002 for
    Great Lakes. Most of that work took place in Illinois, al-
    though Adams is a resident of Michigan. Great Lakes and
    Catrambone, however, paid Adams for only three weeks of
    his work. In addition to not paying Adams, in September
    2002 Catrambone terminated Adams’s employment just
    before he was about to expose Catrambone’s corruption, in-
    cluding the diversion of Great Lakes’s money into the
    accounts of Catrambone’s other businesses. Over Adams’s
    protest, Catrambone then returned the $50,000 that Adams
    had paid for his stock.
    1
    Although Adams does not specifically set it out in the com-
    plaint, Catrambone states in his brief that he was the sole in-
    corporator, officer, and shareholder when the corporation was
    first set up. The primary questions raised by the complaint are
    whether, at some point, Adams and Catrambone “were to be
    equal shareholders in Great Lakes,“ and that Adams paid “50,000
    dollars for the stock interest in Great Lakes.“
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    Adams filed suit in the district court, invoking diversity
    jurisdiction. First, Adams alleged that both defendants vio-
    lated the Wage Act by failing to pay him for the services
    he rendered to the company. Second, Adams alleged that
    Catrambone interfered with his prospective economic ad-
    vantage. Third, Adams alleged that Catrambone breached
    his fiduciary duty to Adams. Adams also seeks other forms
    of relief—an accounting, back wages, and reimbursement of
    business expenses—that he styles as “counts,“ but that are
    really just remedies to which he might be entitled if he were
    2
    to prevail on his substantive claims. Adams maintains that,
    all told, he is entitled to more than $75,000 in monetary
    relief, that he is a citizen of Michigan, and that Catrambone
    and Great Lakes are citizens of Illinois. Diversity jurisdiction
    thus exists on the face of the complaint. 
    28 U.S.C. § 1332
    3
    (2000).
    2
    An accounting is a form of equitable relief incidental to a
    substantive claim. See 2416 Corp. v. First Nat'l Bank of Chicago, 
    415 N.E.2d 420
    , 426 (Ill. App. Ct. 1980). Back wages and reimburse-
    ment of business expenses are forms of relief to which Adams
    might be entitled were he to prevail on his claim under the Wage
    Act. See 820 ILCS 115/2.
    3
    In the original complaint, Adams properly pleaded the Illinois
    citizenship of Great Lakes Building Materials, Inc., asserting that
    both its state of incorporation and principal place of business
    were in Illinois. As to the two individual parties, however,
    the complaint merely alleged that Adams was a “resident“ of
    Michigan and that Catrambone was a “resident“ of Illinois.
    “When the parties allege residence but not citizenship, the
    [district] court must dismiss the suit.“ Guaranty Nat. Title Co. v.
    J.E.G. Associates, 
    101 F.3d 57
    , 59 (7th Cir. 1996). On appeal, we
    ordered Adams to amend his complaint in this court, pursuant to
    
    28 U.S.C. § 1653
    , by alleging the citizenship, not residence, of the
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    The district court, with a magistrate judge presiding
    by consent of the parties, dismissed the Wage Act claim
    on the ground that only Illinois residents are employees
    within the Act’s protection. It dismissed Adams’s claim
    for interference with prospective economic advantage on the
    ground that Adams had not pleaded that Catrambone acted
    toward a third party. Finally, the district court dismissed
    Adams’s claim for breach of fiduciary duty on the ground
    that Adams failed to plead the existence of a fiduciary
    relationship. Adams appeals from the dismissal of each
    claim.
    II.
    We review de novo the district court’s grant of a motion
    to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    12(b)(6). International Mktg., Ltd. v. Archer-Daniels-Midland
    Co., 
    192 F.3d 724
    , 729 (7th Cir. 1999). Dismissal is proper
    “only if it is clear that no relief could be granted under any
    set of facts that could be proved consistent with the al-
    legations.“ Hishon v. King & Spalding, 
    467 U.S. 69
    , 73 (1984).
    The district court dismissed Adams’s claim under the
    Wage Act solely because it concluded that nonresidents of
    Illinois are not employees within the ambit of the statute,
    regardless of whether they work in Illinois. Determining
    whether the Wage Act applies to employees who work,
    but do not reside, in Illinois is a matter of interpreting
    state law, and the Supreme Court of Illinois has not ad-
    (...continued)
    individual parties. See Quinn v. McGraw-Hill Cos., 
    168 F.3d 331
    ,
    334 n.1 (7th Cir. 1999). Adams did so, the defendants do not
    challenge the existence of diversity jurisdiction, and we now are
    satisfied that the parties actually are diverse.
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    dressed this issue. We therefore determine the question as
    we predict the Supreme Court of Illinois would if it were
    deciding the case. Mutual Serv. Cas. Ins. v. Elizabeth State
    Bank, 
    265 F.3d 601
    , 612 (7th Cir. 2001). The decisions of the
    Illinois Appellate Court are persuasive authority. AAR
    Aircraft & Engine Group, Inc. v. Edwards, 
    272 F.3d 468
    , 470
    (7th Cir. 2001). Although those decisions do not bind us, we
    shall follow them unless we have a “compelling reason“ to
    believe that they have stated the law incorrectly. 
    Id.
    The Wage Act “applies to all employers and employees in
    [Illinois].“ 820 ILCS 115/1 (West 1999 & Supp. 2003).
    Relying entirely on Glass v. Kemper Corp., 
    133 F.3d 999
    , 1000
    (7th Cir. 1998), the district court held that nonresidents
    of Illinois are not “employees in [Illinois],“ regardless
    of whether they work in the state, and that Adams therefore
    failed to state a claim. We interpret Glass differently, and we
    anticipate that the Supreme Court of Illinois would hold
    that the Wage Act protects nonresidents of Illinois who
    perform work in that state for an in-state employer. Ac-
    cording to the Illinois Supreme Court, “[t]he primary rule of
    statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the
    intent of the legislature.“ People v. Donoho, 
    788 N.E.2d 707
    ,
    715 (Ill. 2003). The best evidence of that intent is the lan-
    guage of the statute. 
    Id.
     When possible, the Supreme Court
    of Illinois will “interpret the statute according to the plain
    and ordinary meaning of the language.“ 
    Id.
     It will also
    consider the law’s purpose. 
    Id.
     If the statute is “subject to
    two or more reasonable interpretations,“ the Illinois Su-
    preme Court will resort to interpretive aids. 
    Id.
    As stated previously, the Wage Act “applies to all em-
    ployers and employees in [Illinois].“ 820 ILCS 115/1.
    Adams alleges that he worked in Illinois for Great Lakes,
    which would seem to place him within the class of workers
    to whom the Wage Act applies. The Wage Act’s definition
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    of “employee“ gives further illumination: “[a]s used in this
    Act, the term 'employee' shall include any individual per-
    mitted to work by an employer in an occupation.“ 820 ILCS
    4
    115/2. But the statute also carves out an exclusion from this
    definition. It states that the term “employee“
    shall not include any individual:
    (1) who has been and will continue to be free from
    control and direction over the performance of his
    work, both under his contract of service with his
    employer and in fact;
    and
    (2) who performs work which is either outside the
    usual course of business or is performed outside all
    of the places of business of the employer unless the
    employer is in the business of contracting with third
    parties for the placement of employees; and
    (3) who is in an independently established trade,
    occupation, profession or business.
    
    Id.
     (emphasis on the conjunctives added). Considering 820
    ILCS 115/1 and 115/2 together, it becomes apparent that
    whether someone is an employee within the ambit of the
    Wage Act hinges on (1) whether he was an “individual
    permitted to work by an employer in an occupation“ in
    Illinois, and (2) whether he is excepted under the three-
    pronged test for exclusion listed in 820 ILCS 115/2(1)-(3).
    4
    This exclusion is designed to distinguish between protected
    employees and independent contractors, who are not protected.
    Cf. Carpetland v. Illinois Dept. of Emp. Sec., 
    776 N.E.2d 166
    , 169 (Ill.
    2002) (construing a similarly worded exclusion in 820 ILCS
    405/212).
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    With regard to prong one, the defendants rely on Khan v.
    Van Remmen, Inc., 
    756 N.E.2d 902
    , 913 (Ill. App. Ct. 2001),
    for the proposition that the Wage Act applies only to resi-
    dents of Illinois. But Khan resolved a different question:
    whether a resident of Illinois “can state a cause of action
    against an out-of-state employer under the Wage Act.“
    
    Id.
     Khan did not address the converse question we face here:
    whether a nonresident employee who worked in Illinois
    could maintain a claim under the Wage Act against an in-
    state employer. Nothing in Khan suggests that the Wage Act
    can never apply to a nonresident of Illinois, and so that
    decision does not lead us to believe that the Illinois Supreme
    Court would reach that conclusion either.
    The defendants nevertheless point out, correctly, that both
    the court below and the district court in PRM Realty Group
    v. Wood, No. 02 C 3396, 
    2002 WL 1792063
    , at *1 (N.D. Ill.
    Aug. 5, 2002), have interpreted Glass to indicate that the
    Wage Act applies only to Illinois residents. But, in relevant
    part, that is not what Glass says:
    The dismissal of the statutory claim was clearly
    correct. The act “applies to all employers and em-
    ployees in this State.“ 820 ILCS 115/1. The plaintiff
    is not, and at no time relevant to this suit was he, a
    resident of Illinois. Nor did he perform any work in
    Illinois; all the work that he did for the defendants
    was done in Spain. Although the employer defen-
    dants have their principal places of business in
    Illinois, and are therefore “employers . . . in this
    State,“ we do not think the statute has an extra-
    territorial reach. Its evident purpose is to protect
    employees in Illinois from being stiffed by their
    employers; to this end it imposes heavy sanctions
    on employers who fail to pay wages that have ac-
    crued. 820 ILCS 115/14.
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    Glass, 
    133 F.3d at 1000
     (emphasis added). In our view, Glass
    implies that the Wage Act protects an employee who per-
    forms work in Illinois for an Illinois employer, even if he
    resides in another state. That is why the court in Glass found
    it necessary to point out, when it explained why dismissal
    of Glass’s Wage Act claim was appropriate, that Glass had
    not “perform[ed] any work in Illinois.“ Logically, if the
    employee performs his work in Illinois, he is an employee
    in Illinois. Thus, to whatever extent the Supreme Court of
    Illinois might find Glass persuasive, it would be more likely
    to hold that the Wage Act applies to a nonresident, such as
    Adams, who performs his work within Illinois for an in-
    state employer.
    After considering the authorities discussed above, we
    hold what Glass implied and what the language of the stat-
    ute makes plain: nonresidents of Illinois who work in that
    state for an in-state employer may qualify as employees
    within the protection of the Wage Act. This interpretation of
    the statute promotes the Wage Act’s purpose: “to protect
    employees in Illinois from being stiffed by their employers.“
    
    Id.
     (emphasis in original). The Wage Act’s applicability to
    nonresidents who perform their work in Illinois for an in-
    state employer is sufficiently clear to preclude any need to
    resort to additional interpretive aids.
    The defendants argue in the alternative that, even if the
    Wage Act were to apply to nonresidents, dismissal would
    still be appropriate because Adams comes under the ex-
    clusion in 820 ILCS 115/2, making him a non-employee.
    Nothing in the complaint could be construed to suggest that
    he fits within the provisions of 820 ILCS 115/2(2) or (3), and
    the defendants do not argue as much. That observation
    would seem dispositive, because the three-pronged exclu-
    sion is, as we emphasized, drafted in the conjunctive;
    meeting just one of the three prongs will not suffice. None-
    No. 03-2408                                                9
    theless, relying on Doherty v. Kahn, 
    682 N.E.2d 163
     (Ill.
    App. Ct. 1997), the defendants argue that we should read
    the exclusion in the disjunctive and affirm dismissal of
    Adams’s Wage Act claim simply because Adams meets the
    first prong of the exclusion, 820 ILCS 115/2(1). The defen-
    dants maintain that Adams, by alleging that he was a 50%
    shareholder and vice-president of Great Lakes, has estab-
    lished that he was “free from control and direction over the
    performance of his work, both under his contract of service
    with his employer and in fact“ and that 820 ILCS 115/2(1)
    thus establishes that he was not an employee under the
    Wage Act.
    Doherty supports the defendants’ position. The Doherty
    court held that, because the plaintiff “was an employee who
    also had some control over the business and direction over
    the performance of his work,“ he fit within the exclusion of
    820 ILCS 115/2(1) and, for that reason alone, did “not fall
    into the class of employees the Wage Act seeks to protect.“
    
    Id. at 173
     (emphasis added). In reaching that conclusion, the
    Doherty court did not find it necessary to address the second
    or third prongs of the exclusion, 820 ILCS 115/2(2) and (3).
    Were we to find Doherty persuasive, and confine our
    analysis to the first prong, we would affirm dismissal of
    Adams’s claim under the Wage Act, at least insofar as
    Adams sought to recover wages earned after, as he claims,
    he became a 50% shareholder and officer of Great Lakes. In
    paragraph seven of the complaint, Adams alleges that in his
    capacity “as a shareholder and officer of Great Lakes,“ he
    secured a $250,000 line of credit for the company in Febru-
    ary 2002. Only a person with at least some control over the
    business and direction over the performance of his work
    could accomplish such a task, and so Adams has alleged
    himself to be in a position analogous to the one occupied by
    the unsuccessful plaintiff in Doherty.
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    But Doherty is unpersuasive because, as we emphasized
    above, 820 ILCS 115/2 is drafted in the conjunctive: the
    word “and“ joins 820 ILCS/2(1), (2), and (3), which means
    that only a plaintiff who meets all three prongs of 820 ILCS
    115/2 falls within the statutory exclusion to the Wage Act’s
    definition of “employee.“ Cf. City of Carbondale v. Brewer, 
    773 N.E.2d 182
    , 186 (Ill. App. Ct. 2002) (interpreting “and“ as
    conjunctive). In its short analysis of 820 ILCS 115/2, Doherty
    did not address the second or third prongs of the exclusion.
    Instead, it upheld the dismissal of Doherty’s claim under the
    Wage Act because he satisfied just the first prong of the
    exclusion. As noted above, the conjunctive language in the
    statute requires that all three prongs be met.
    This conclusion is strongly supported by AFM Messenger
    Serv., Inc. v. Department of Emp. Sec., 
    763 N.E.2d 272
     (Ill.
    2001), where the Illinois Supreme Court applied a similarly
    worded exclusion to the Illinois Unemployment Insurance
    Act and reasoned that “because the three conditions . . . are
    phrased in the conjunctive, all three conditions must be sat-
    isfied for the independent contractor exemption to apply.“
    
    Id. at 283
    ; see Amoroso v. Crescent Private Capital, L.P., No. 02
    C 1453, 
    2003 WL 22344098
    , at *3 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 14, 2003).
    Based on the holding in AFM, were this question before the
    Supreme Court of Illinois, it would hold that all three con-
    ditions of 820 ILCS 115/2 must likewise be satisfied before
    the exclusion could apply. As nothing in the complaint
    shows that Adams meets all three prongs of the exclusion
    delineated in 820 ILCS 115/2, we conclude that the exclu-
    sion does not apply to him.
    Thus we conclude that nonresidents who work in Illinois
    for an in-state employer may state a claim under the Wage
    Act and that the exclusion to the Wage Act’s definition of
    “employee“ does not apply to Adams. We reverse the dis-
    trict court’s dismissal of Adams’s claim under the Wage Act.
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    We next consider the dismissal of Adams’s claim against
    Catrambone for interference with prospective econo-
    mic advantage. The district court dismissed this claim for
    one reason: Adams had not pleaded that Catrambone
    acted toward a third party. “[T]he tort of interference with
    prospective advantage requires a showing of action by the
    defendant toward a third party.“ Vickers v. Abbott Labs.,
    
    719 N.E.2d 1101
    , 1116 (Ill. App. Ct. 1999). The district
    court reasoned thus: “Plaintiff’s complaint does not mention
    any third party. All plaintiff alleges is, essentially, that
    Catrambone was supposed to make him a shareholder but
    did not.“
    Although not particularly well drafted, Adams’s com-
    plaint sets forth that Catrambone interfered with his pros-
    pective employment with Great Lakes (the third party), and
    the future economic advantages it entailed, for an illegiti-
    mate purpose: to thwart Adams’s incipient exposure of
    5
    Catrambone’s fraud against the corporation. The district
    court should not have dismissed this claim on the ground
    5
    The assertion that Catrambone siphoned money from the
    corporation is in paragraph fifteen of the complaint, where
    Adams alleges that “in the course of conducting business,
    the Plaintiff ascertained and determined that the Defendant,
    Richard Catrambone, failed to disclose and clandestinely hid
    from Plaintiff, certain profits and avails that were diverted from
    Great Lakes and Plaintiff to the benefit of Defendant, Richard
    Catrambone.“ The allegation that Catrambone fired Adams as
    part of a cover-up is in paragraph sixteen, where Adams pleads
    that after he confronted Catrambone, he “was effectively ter-
    minated from all information, operation and access“ at Great
    Lakes. Although these allegations come under the heading of
    count I, “Accounting and Other Relief,“ they nonetheless notify
    the defendants of the basis of Adams’s claim. Under Federal Rule
    of Civil Procedure 8, that suffices. See Bartholet v. Resihauer A.G.
    (Zurich), 
    953 F.2d 1073
    , 1078 (7th Cir. 1992).
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    that Adams failed to plead the element of action by
    Catrambone toward a third party.
    Catrambone argues in the alternative that dismissal of this
    claim was appropriate because, as a corporate officer, he
    enjoyed a qualified privilege to interfere with Adams’s
    prospective economic advantage with the corporation. Such
    a privilege exists, but it is inapplicable where, as Adams
    alleges, the defendant’s action is without justification (e.g.,
    when the interference was designed to cover up the defen-
    dant’s theft of corporate assets). Mittelman v. Witous, 
    552 N.E.2d 973
    , 987 (Ill. 1989), abrogated on other grounds by
    Kuwik v. Starmark Star Marketing & Admin., Inc., 
    619 N.E.2d 129
     (Ill. 1993); Schuler v. Abbott Labs., 
    639 N.E.2d 144
    , 148 (Ill.
    App. Ct. 1993) (stating that the privilege is inapplicable
    where the defendant’s “actions were unrelated to or antago-
    nistic to the interest that gave rise to the privilege“). We
    therefore reverse dismissal of Adams’s claim for interfer-
    ence with prospective economic advantage.
    Adams’s final claim is for breach of fiduciary duty. A
    claim “for breach of fiduciary duty must set forth . . . that a
    fiduciary relationship existed between the parties, that the
    trustee owed certain, specific duties to the plaintiff, that the
    trustee breached those duties, and that there were resulting
    damages.“ Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. v. Lesman, 
    542 N.E.2d 824
    , 826 (Ill. App. Ct. 1989). The district court
    dismissed this claim on the ground that Adams did not
    allege the existence of a fiduciary relationship. It reached
    this conclusion because, in its view, the complaint alleged
    no more than a failed business deal, and the parties to a
    business deal do not owe one another a fiduciary duty.
    We disagree with the district court’s characterization of
    the complaint. Although not a model of clarity, the com-
    plaint does allege that Catrambone, who was a 50% share-
    holder in Great Lakes, “owed a fiduciary duty to Plaintiff as
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    a 50% shareholder and co-venturer in the entity and busi-
    ness to act in an honest forthright manner and deal fairly
    and honestly with the Plaintiff.“ These allegations, if true,
    would establish the existence of a fiduciary duty:
    “[s]hareholders in a close corporation owe to each other
    fiduciary duties similar to those of partners in a partner-
    ship.“ Anest v. Audino, 
    773 N.E.2d 202
    , 209 (Ill. App. Ct.
    2002). It is true that some aspects of the complaint, taken in
    isolation, could be read to suggest that Adams was never a
    50% shareholder, that he was only supposed to become one.
    The complaint suffices, however, to place Catrambone on
    notice that he is alleged to have violated a fiduciary duty to
    Adams, the only other shareholder in the corporation, by
    siphoning off corporate assets. The complaint is therefore
    good enough for Adams’s claim to survive a motion to
    dismiss. See Ross Bros. Const. Co. v. International Steel Servs.,
    
    283 F.3d 867
    , 873 (7th Cir. 2002).
    III.
    The Wage Act applies to nonresidents who work in
    Illinois for an Illinois employer, and not all three criteria of
    the exclusion in 820 ILCS 115/2 apply to Adams. We
    therefore reverse dismissal of his claim under the Wage Act.
    Adams alleged that Catrambone interfered with his pro-
    spective economic relations with a third party, Great Lakes,
    and that Catrambone did so in order to cover up his diver-
    sion of corporate assets. We therefore REVERSE dismissal of
    Adams’s claim for interference with prospective economic
    advantage. Adams alleged that he and Catrambone were
    shareholders in a close corporation, and that Catrambone
    thus had a fiduciary duty to Adams. Accordingly, we
    REVERSE dismissal of Adams’s claim for breach of fiduciary
    duty. We REMAND for further proceedings.
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    A true Copy:
    Teste:
    _____________________________
    Clerk of the United States Court of
    Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    USCA-02-C-0072—2-19-04
    

Document Info

Docket Number: 03-2408

Judges: Per Curiam

Filed Date: 2/19/2004

Precedential Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 9/24/2015

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City of Carbondale v. Bower , 332 Ill. App. 3d 928 ( 2002 )

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Liaquat Khan v. Van Remmen, Inc. , 325 Ill. App. 3d 49 ( 2001 )

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Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Company, as Subrogee of ... , 265 F.3d 601 ( 2001 )

Gregory Glass v. Kemper Corporation , 133 F.3d 999 ( 1998 )

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International Marketing, Limited v. Archer-Daniels-Midland ... , 192 F.3d 724 ( 1999 )

Aar Aircraft & Engine Group, Inc. v. Charles Edwards , 272 F.3d 468 ( 2001 )

Schuler v. Abbott Laboratories , 203 Ill. Dec. 105 ( 1993 )

Maurice L. Quinn v. The McGraw Companies, Inc. , 168 F.3d 331 ( 1999 )

Doherty v. Kahn , 224 Ill. Dec. 602 ( 1997 )

2416 Corp. v. First Nat'l Bk. of Chicago , 91 Ill. App. 3d 961 ( 1980 )

Vickers v. Abbott Laboratories , 308 Ill. App. 3d 393 ( 1999 )

People v. Donoho , 204 Ill. 2d 159 ( 2003 )

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Kuwik v. Starmark Star Marketing & Administration, Inc. , 156 Ill. 2d 16 ( 1993 )

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