TACKET v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 87-1578.

836 F.2d 1042 (1987)

Thomas J. TACKET, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lee McNeely, McNeely, Sanders & Stephenson, Shelbyville, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Herbert C. Snyder, Jr., Barnes & Thornburg, Ft. Wayne, Ind., for defendant-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Someone painted this sign on an inside wall of Plant 17 of the Delco Remy Division of General Motors Corp. in Anderson, Indiana:

Delco painted over the sign seven to eight months later. Thomas J. Tacket, the night superintendent of Plant 17 at the time the sign appeared, filed this action for defamation in an Indiana court. General Motors removed it to federal court under...

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