United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act arising out of the sale of a rail operation, the district court's conclusion that the act did not apply because most of the seller's employees were hired by the purchaser is reversed where the sale of the operation took place after the firing of the workers, thus the events were properly classified as "employment loss" under the statute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2007
• Decided 03/15/2007
• Published 03/15/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jorge Sanchez, Carol Nguyen (argued), Despres, Schwartz & Geoghegan, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jon E. Klinghoffer, Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Chicago, IL, Lester W. Armstrong (argued), Kahn Kleinman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.