United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for Union and its pension fund on defendant's counterclaims in a suit involving alleged deficiencies in defendant's contributions to Union's pension and welfare funds is affirmed where: 1) there was insufficient evidence for a defamation claim to allow a finder of fact to conclude the Union acted with actual malice; 2) the Labor Management Relations Act preempted state law claims; 3) defendant could not show that the Union picketed in order to force defendant to rejoin a multi-employer bargaining association; and 4) defendant could not show actual malice to prevail in a claim under the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/17/2006
• Decided 09/18/2006
• Published 09/18/2006

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and KANNE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel P. McAnally, Whitfield & McGann, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael A. Weinberg (argued), Novack & Macey, Joshua D. Holleb, Klein Dub & Holleb, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants., Travis J. Ketterman (argued), Whitfield & McGann, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.