Legal Opinion
American Hospital Supply Corp. v. Hospital Products Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 2, 1986No. 85-2203PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A supplier terminated a distributor, who sued for breach of contract and got a preliminary injunction. The supplier has appealed under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1). The appeal raises issues of procedure and contract law.
The supplier, Hospital Products (as we shall call the affiliated corporations that are the defendants), a small firm now undergoing reorganization in bankruptcy, is one of the world’s two principal manufacturers of “reusable surgical stapling systems for internal surgical procedures” (“surgical stapling systems,” for short). The terminated distributor, American…
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