United States Seventh Circuit

In a negligence suit arising out of the failure of a hotel to prevent the rape of the plaintiff, a guest at the hotel, by another guest, summary judgment for defendant-hotel is affirmed where the plaintiff failed to present enough evidence to establish a genuine issue concerning the sufficiency of the care exercised by the hotel to protect its guests against the kind of injury in question.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/09/2006
• Decided 02/20/2007
• Published 02/20/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Recker, II (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert B. Thornburg (argued), Locke Reynolds LLP, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.