J.D. EDWARDS & CO. v. PODANY

No. 98-2486.

168 F.3d 1020 (1999)

J.D. EDWARDS & COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Randy PODANY and Mercer Management Consulting, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. McKenna, Jr., Hopkins & Sutter, Chicago, IL, Stephen J. Baity (argued), Godin & Baity, Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael M. Lane (argued), McCullough, Campbell & Lane, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

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


POSNER, Chief Judge.

A company had a contract to sell computer services. The buyer broke the contract, but the seller's suit, a diversity suit governed, so far as substantive issues are concerned, by the law of Illinois, is not against the buyer; it is against a consulting firm (and a former employee of the firm) that advised the buyer and was responsible for the buyer's decision to break its contract with the seller. The...

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