In plaintiff’s negligence suit against Wal-Mart for selling bullets to his wife without asking her for the identification card required by Illinois law (she later committed suicide), dismissal of the complaint is affirmed as Illinois law continues to deem suicide an independent intervening event that breaks the chain of causation, even after an illicit gun sale.
Read Johnson v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. 08-4226
Appellate Information
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Decided December 1, 2009
Judges
Before: Cudahy, Flaum and Evans, Circuit Judges
Opinion by Flaum, Judge
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