Ez Paintr Corporation v. Padco, Inc.

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

In this patent infringement suit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota the court disqualified appellant Padco’s law firm because two newly-joined members of that firm had immediately prior to that joinder been partners in a law firm representing appellee EZ Paintr Corporation in this very litigation. The court also limited the turn-over of work product by the disqualified firm to its successor to that part of the product prepared before the attorneys changed firms. We affirm.

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The underlying action, begun in February 1981, was brought in the…