TENNECO INC. v. SAXONY BAR & TUBE, INC.

No. 85-1257.

776 F.2d 1375 (1985)

TENNECO INC., Plaintiff, v. SAXONY BAR & TUBE, INC., et al., Defendants. Appeal of FIRST INTERSTATE COMMERCIAL CORPORATION.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Jane Edelstein, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Eiger, Chicago, Ill., for First Interstate Commercial Corp.

William J. Noble, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Before POSNER, FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

First Interstate Commercial Corp. (FICC) tried to intervene in a suit in which it was already a defendant. Instead of gently telling FICC that once is enough, the district court denied the application. FICC immediately appealed, relying on cases characterizing as "final" and appealable denials of intervention as of right. E.g., Sam Fox Publishing Co. v. United States, 366 U.S. 683, 687-88, 81 S.Ct...

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