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Seventh Circuit· 11/30/2012

Henry Ruppel v. CBS Corporation

Citations

  • 701 F.3d 1176
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 24625
  • 2012 WL 5971242

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that manufacturer acted under the federal government when it produced turbines for an aircraft carrier according to government specifications
  • holding that the CBS corporation was “acting under” the federal government because it “worked hand-in-hand with the government, assisting the federal government in building warships.”
  • holding that the CBS corporation was “acting under” the federal government because it “worked hand-in-hand with the government, assisting the federal government in building warships.”
  • concluding that a Navy man satisfied the causal nexus test against for his negligence claim against contractor that “manufactured, sold, distributed, or installed” turbines with asbestos under the direction of the navy
  • holding that a turbine manufacturer for the United States Navy that worked \hand-in-hand with the government\ to \achieve an end [the government] would have otherwise used its own agents to complete\ was \acting under\ a federal officer
  • noting that the “under color of federal authority” requirement “is distinct from the ‘acting under’ requirement in the same way a bona fide federal officer could not remove a trespass suit that occurred while he was taking out the garbage”

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Judges: Flaum, Sykes, Randa

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