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AFFETTO v. TRW, INC.

No. 79-1377.

691 F.2d 357 (1982)

Carlo AFFETTO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TRW, INC., an Ohio corporation, and John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, a Massachusetts corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Marino, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

D. Kendall Griffith, Hinshaw, Culbertson, Meolmann, Hoban & Fuller, J. Robert Geiman, Peterson, Ross, Schloerb & Seidel, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, Circuit Judge, and SWYGERT and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judges.

FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

The question on this appeal is the proper interpretation of an Illinois statute allowing an attorney's fee to a plaintiff in a successful suit for wages, and whether an employee's action to recover pension and insurance benefits is a suit for wages.1

Plaintiffs are former employees of defendant TRW at a plant in the Chicago area. In 1973 TRW informed its Chicago employees that it was moving its...

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