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Appellate Court of Illinois· 7/3/2008

Gregory v. Beazer East

Citations

  • 892 N.E.2d 563
  • 384 Ill. App. 3d 178

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that trial court’s choice-of-law determination is reviewed de novo because “the task of evaluating and balancing the choice-of-law factors ... is a matter of law rather than ... of fact”
  • finding that Illinois was a proper forum, but holding that Indiana, the state with the most overall contact with the plaintiff's injury and domicile, was the proper law to apply
  • asbestos blankets and gloves were items provided at refinery and cannot be said to be a condition on the land of the refinery
  • \A choice-of-law determination is required only when a difference in law will make a difference in the outcome of a cause.\
  • “Only if such a safety program sufficiently affected the subcontractor’s employees’ means and methods of doing their work would the program possibly bring the owner within the ambit of the retained control exception.”
  • asbestos blankets and gloves were not conditions on the land

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Judges: Fitzgerald Smith

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