By: Derek Hawkins//February 13, 2018//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Beebe Roth, et al., v. Starbucks Corporation
Case No.: 16-4033
Officials: BAUER, ROVNER, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Negligence
While Beebe and Lucas Roh were at Starbucks on Rush Street in Chicago, Illinois with their two sons Alexander and Marcus, a wood and metal stanchion fell onto Marcus Roh’s finger. Marcus’s injured finger had to be amputated that same day. Beebe sued Starbucks Corporation in state court on behalf of Marcus, claiming its negligence caused Marcus’s injury. Invoking federal diversity jurisdiction, Starbucks removed the case to federal court, where the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Starbucks. Beebe appeals, and we affirm, concluding, as did the district court, that any duty Starbucks may have owed Marcus was abrogated by his parents’ presence with him in Starbucks at the time of the accident.
Affirmed