Legal Opinion
Medtronic, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation v. Intermedics, Inc., a Texas Corporation, and Intermedics Illinois, Inc., a Texas Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 1984No. 83-1826PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from a district judge’s refusal to stay a lawsuit requires us to consider the recurrent and difficult question of the ap-pealability of orders granting or denying stays. The plaintiff, Medtronic, manufactures pacemakers in competition with the defendants, two affiliated corporations that we shall refer to jointly as Intermedies. Medtronic complains in this diversity suit that Intermedies hired away from Medtron ic three of its key sales representatives, and by doing so broke a contract with Medtronic settling earlier litigation between the firms and violated…
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