JOHN CRANE, INC. v. SHEIN LAW CENTER, LTD.

Nos. 17-1809, 17-1926 & 17-1814.

891 F.3d 692 (2018)

JOHN CRANE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. SHEIN LAW CENTER, LTD. and Benjamin P. Shein, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, Jeffrey B. Simon and David C. Greenstone, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 4, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Ferguson, Matthew R. Ford, Katherine G. Minarik, Katharine A. Roin, Attorneys, BARTLIT, BECK, HERMAN, PALENCHAR & SCOTT LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Joseph R. Marconi, David M. Macksey, Attorneys, JOHNSON & BELL, LTD., Chicago, IL, Michael W. Magner, Avery Pardee, Attorneys, JONES WALKER, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Kanne and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


John Crane, Inc., as a manufacturer of products containing asbestos, has been sued many times for injuries caused by exposure to asbestos. Now it claims some of those suits were part of a conspiracy to defraud the company. It filed lawsuits in the Northern District of Illinois against two law firms and their lawyers who brought...

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