TRADESMAN INTERN., INC. v. BLACK

Nos. 11-3715, 12-2032.

724 F.3d 1004 (2013)

TRADESMAN INTERNATIONAL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. JOHN BLACK, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 1, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Kurek, Esq. , Fisher & Phillips, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

Kenneth J. Vanko , Clingen, Callow & McClean, Wheaton, IL, for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Before KANNE, TINDER, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

John Black, Todd Walker, Ryan Ellis, and Ryan Boyer all held upper-level management positions at Tradesmen International, Inc., a construction staffing company, when they first began to discuss forming their own competing company in August 2009. Over the course of twelve years at Tradesmen, Ellis had risen from an entry-level field representative position to become the Area Manager of the Ohio Valley; Black, Walker, and Boyer had risen from...

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