United States Seventh Circuit

In a personal injury suit after plaintiff injured his hand in a machine manufactured by defendant's predecessor, judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not abuse its discretion in conducting voir dire and in rejecting plaintiff's questions because the questions posed to the prospective jurors more than adequately allowed the parties to exercise their challenges intelligently; and 2) the district court also did not abuse its discretion in rejecting plaintiff's proposed jury instructions because the proposed instructions misstated Illinois negligence law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/20/2007
• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, KANNE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan C. Mendelson (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alyssa M. Campbell (argued), Williams Montgomery & John, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.