United States Seventh Circuit

Court affirmed summary judgment for a plaintiff who claimed that when a company he ran filed for bankruptcy, it constituted a "change in control" as to trigger a clause in his employment contract requiring defendants pay him a substantial sum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/24/2004
• Decided 07/06/2004
• Published 07/06/2004

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Caesar A. Tabet (argued), Tabet, Divito & Rothstein, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Peter B. Bensinger, Jr. (argued), Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.