Legal Opinion

Union Carbide Corp. v. U.S. Cutting Service, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided January 28, 1986No. Nos. 85-2926, 85-2965 and 85-3039PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

We have consolidated for decision two interlocutory appeals (alternatively pleaded as petitions for mandamus, see 28 U.S.C. § 1651) filed by Union Carbide Corporation, a defendant in a large antitrust class action (now in the discovery stage in the district court) brought on behalf of buyers of industrial gases. In the first (Nos. 85-2965 and 85-3039), Union Carbide is trying to appeal from an order by Judge Getzendanner refusing to allow it to interview persons employed by members of the plaintiff class. Because the class is so *712large (it has 172,000 members), the order…

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