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CARMAN v. TINKES

No. 13-3846.

762 F.3d 565 (2014)

Estate of Edmund M. CARMAN, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Daniel B. TINKES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 7, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darnail Lyles , Darnail Lyles Attorney & Counselor at Law, Gary, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Brandon J. Kroft , Heather Terese Gilbert , Cassiday Schade LLP, Crown Point, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Edmund Carman died after crashing his car into the back of a commercial pickup truck. His estate brought state negligence claims in federal district court against the truck's driver, the driver's employer, and the truck's owner, invoking the court's diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(1). (Carman was a citizen of Indiana, where his estate is pending, while the defendants are citizens of Illinois.) The district court granted...

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