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O'BRIEN v. CATERPILLAR INC.

No. 17-2956.

900 F.3d 923 (2018)

Timothy O'BRIEN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CATERPILLAR INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 20, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Galland, Jr. , Attorney, David Baltmanis , Attorney, Matthew James Owens , Attorney, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Suite 350, 325 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60610-0000, Athena M. Herman , Attorney, Benassi & Benassi, 300 N.E. Perry Avenue, Peoria, IL 61603-0000, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Heather S. Lehman , Attorney, Joseph James Torres , Attorney, Derek G. Barella , Attorney, Winston & Strawn LLP, 35 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601-9703, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Easterbrook, Kanne, and Sykes, Circuit Judges.

For more than half a century, Caterpillar Inc. paid unemployment benefits to laid-off employees at its manufacturing plant in Joliet, Illinois. This arrangement lasted until Caterpillar and the local union agreed to end the program in their 2012 collective-bargaining agreement. In exchange for the elimination of the benefits...

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