New opinions online
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has posted two new opinions online today:
- Trustmark v. Gen’l and Cologne (civil)
- Lozano, David v. Frank, Matthew (prisoner appeal)
Judge Ann Claire Williams begins the Trustmark decision with this:
Surely, if there is any moral to this story, it is to “get it in writing.” It is astounding in this day and age to find it necessary to repeat this admonition, but no less so than to find a sophisticated party willing to leverage an agreement involving multiple years and millions of dollars solely on the enforceability of a simple handshake. Yet that is precisely what has happened in this case.
