United States Seventh Circuit

Court ruled unenforceable a contract clause requiring defendants to pay damages if they failed to release an option in a separate contract with a third party by a given date because the clause constituted an impermissible penalty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/28/2003
• Decided 06/09/2004
• Published 06/09/2004

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert C. Wilson,Wilson & Cape, Harrisburg, IL, Darrell Dunham (argued), Carbondale, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Donald M. Snemis (argued), Ice Miller, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.