Legal Opinion
Heraeus Kulzer GmbH v. Biomet, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 24, 2011No. 09-2858, 10-2639PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from orders by the district court denying applications to compel discovery for use in a lawsuit pending in a foreign court. (To simplify, we’ll pretend there was one application and one order.) Although orders granting or denying motions to compel discovery normally are nonfínal and therefore appealable only in extraordinary circumstances, the orders in this case are final because there is no pending litigation in the district court. The court is finished with the matter — as the only matter is discovery — and when no further proceedings are…
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