United States Seventh Circuit

In a cross-claim by a director of a company to recover on trailer leases entered into between the director and the company, dismissal of the claims is affirmed where: 1) the Illinois Director Conflict of Interest statute applied to the leases in question; 2) the cross-claimant's evidence was insufficient to create a genuine factual dispute regarding the fairness of the leases; and 3) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the cross-claimant's discovery requests aimed at augmenting his settlement recovery.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2006
• Decided 09/10/2007
• Published 09/10/2007

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel T. Graham, Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.


• For Appellees:
  
• John F. Theil (argued), Theil Law Firm, St. Louis, MO, Terrell L. Sharp (argued), Mt. Vernon, IL, for Defendants-Appellant-Appellees.