TORREZ v. TGI FRIDAY'S, INC.

No. 07-1107.

509 F.3d 808 (2007)

Alexander TORREZ, also known as Alejandro Torrez, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TGI FRIDAY'S, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ocasek (argued), Cooney & Conway, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Steven G. Carlson (argued), Johnson & Bell, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

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


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In this suit for personal injury, governed by Illinois law, the district judge granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals. Federal jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship, though we were able to ascertain this only by directing the parties to file supplemental jurisdictional memoranda; for the jurisdictional statement in the plaintiff's opening brief failed to identify the state in which the defendant...

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