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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Martyn Baylay v. Etihad Airways P.J.S.C., et al.

Case No.: 16-4113;17-1958

Officials: MANION, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Jurisdiction

In 2013, Saravdeep Mann attacked his coworker, Martyn Baylay, with a bronze hotel decoration. The two men, members of a flight crew employed by Etihad Airways, were at a Chicago hotel for the night on a layover.

Baylay sued Etihad, Mann, and the hotel’s corporate entities in federal district court. The court dismissed all of Baylay’s claims against Etihad on the basis that the claims should be heard by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission instead. The court entered an order allowing an immediate appeal of that decision, which Baylay filed on December 9, 2016 (No. 16-4113). A few months later, the district court dismissed Baylay’s remaining claims. It reasoned that it had no original jurisdiction over the claims and declined to exercise its supplemental jurisdiction. Baylay filed his notice of appeal of that decision on May 5, 2017 (No. 17-1958). The appeals have been consolidated and are before us now. We affirm the dismissal of Baylay’s claims.

Affirmed

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