Legal Opinion
Futuresource LLC v. Reuters Limited Reuters S.A. And Reuters America Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 27, 2002No. 02-2060PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants in this diversity suit for breach of contract and tortious interference with contract (affiliated corporations that we’ll call “Reuters”) appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction to the plaintiff, FutureSource. The appeal raises issues of copyright and bankruptcy law, as well as of the common law of Illinois — actually there’s no discussion of choice of law issues, and so we apply the law of the forum state, which happens to be Illinois. We note preliminarily that the district court based its decision entirely on an unreported district court…
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