Legal Opinion
In Re: Rearden LLC
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 17, 2016No. 2016-125PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
The defendants in the underlying case, Rearden LLC, Rearden MOVA LLC, M02, LLC, and MOVA, LLC, petition for a writ of mandamus to challenge the district court’s order compelling them to produce allegedly privileged documents. We conclude we have jurisdiction to decide their petition. We further conclude that petitioners’ arguments fail to carry the high burden required on mandamus to overturn the district court’s discovery determination. We therefore deny their petition.
BACKGROUND
A
The central, underlying dispute in this case is one of ownership. Both sides claim ownership of visual…
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