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· 7/29/1999

Lang v. Silva

Citations

  • 715 N.E.2d 708
  • 306 Ill. App. 3d 960
  • 240 Ill. Dec. 21

How courts have described this case

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

  • “even in sports where there are rules governing the permissible degree of physical contact, rule infractions are inevitable and justify a lower standard of care than ordinary negligence”
  • free-lance status, nature of the payment, and working for other companies, all indicated independent contractor status
  • “even in sports where there are rules governing the permissible degree of physical contact, rule infractions are inevitable and justify a lower standard of care than ordinary negligence”
  • employee-employer relationship is one of agency
  • employee-employer relationship is one of 22 agency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hoffman, South, Hall

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