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CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC. v. RAGAN

Nos. 87-1760, 87-1761.

826 F.2d 600 (1987)

CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. David J. RAGAN, et al., Defendants. Appeal of William F. TUETING, Alan S. Gilbert and Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal. In the Matter of William F. TUETING and Alan S. Gilbert, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Tueting, Sonnenschein Carlin Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

David T. Pitikin, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before POSNER, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal, cast alternatively as a petition for mandamus under 28 U.S.C. § 1651. The appellant-petitioner is Sonnenschein, a Chicago law firm, and two of its members (but we shall suppress that detail to simplify the opinion). Judge Hart ordered the firm, against its will, to represent an individual, David Ragan, in Ragan's multidistrict litigation (which had been transferred...

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