PHASON v. MERIDIAN RAIL CORP.

No. 06-2842.

479 F.3d 527 (2007)

Robert PHASON, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MERIDIAN RAIL CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorge Sanchez, Carol Nguyen (argued), Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jon E. Klinghoffer, Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL, Lester W. Armstrong (argued), Kahn Kleinman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.

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


EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.

On the last day of 2003, Meridian Rail Corp. notified its staff that it was closing its operations in Chicago Heights, Illinois, effective immediately, and invited them to apply for jobs with NAE Nortrak, Inc., which had agreed to buy the assets. Nortrak itself had issued such an invitation in mid-December, when Nortrak and Meridian shook hands on the deal. For reasons that this record does not illuminate, however, the transaction did not...

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