Legal Opinion
Salton, Inc. v. Philips Domestic Appliances & Personal Care B.V.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 2004No. Nos. 04-1042, 04-1359, 04-2994PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Saltón and Philips are competing makers of kitchen appliances. In August of last year Saltón filed a diversity suit in the federal district court in Chicago against Philips, Saltón being a citizen of Delaware and Illinois and Philips a citizen of the Netherlands. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2). Saltón sought a declaration that it had not misappropriated any of Philips’s trade secrets. After accelerated discovery, the district court dismissed the suit on the ground that another company, Electrical & Electronics (E & E), was an indispensable party, which is to say a necessary…
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