Legal Opinion
Thorogood v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 2, 2010No. 10-2407PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In this third appeal arising out of a near-frivolous class action suit by Steven Thorogood, Sears Roebuck, the defendant, asks us to reverse the district court, which has denied Sears’s motion to enjoin a virtually identical class action suit — a suit filed in the name of Martin Murray by counsel who represented Thorogood, and pending in a federal district court in California. Murray v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. 4:09-ev-5744-CW (N.D.Cal.). Judge Leinenweber, who had presided over Thorogood’s suit and to whom Sears’s motion for an injunction was referred, ruled that Sears…
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