Legal Opinion
GEA Group AG v. Flex-N-Gate Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 2014No. 13-2135, 13-2594PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Before us is an appeal by GEA Group AG from an order by the district judge partially lifting a stay of discovery in a diversity suit brought by GEA against Flex-N-Gate Corporation and its CEO, board chairman, and controlling shareholder, the American billionaire Shahid Khan. Also before us is a petition for mandamus by GEA, should we decide we don’t have appellate jurisdiction. We do have appellate jurisdiction, as we’ll explain, so the petition for mandamus can be dismissed as superfluous. Also before us, discussed at the end of this opinion, is a motion to seal certain…
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