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- Title: Labuhn v. Bulkmatic Transport Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 29, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This lawsuit presents an issue of federal preemption in a tangled procedural setting. We simplify where possible. The suit was originally filed in an Illinois state court in 1986. The plaintiff, Joe LaBuhn, sought compensatory and punitive damages against Bulkmatic Transport Company, which had employed him as a driver of its chemical trucks. The complaint charged that Bulkmatic had violated the common law of Illinois by firing him in retaliation both (1) for complaining (without success) to his supervisors about safety hazards at customers' premises, safety defects in Bulkmatic's trucks, and Bulkmatic's general lack of safety precautions for him and other drivers, and (2) for filing a grievance when he was fired once previously because of his complaints. Cf. Midgett v. Sackett-Chicago, Inc., 105 Ill. 2d 143, 473 N.E.2d 1280, 85 Ill. Dec. 475 (1984). LaBuhn alleged that Bulkmatic's neglect of safety had resulted in his being exposed to dangerous quantities of silicate soda.
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