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CLEAVER v. ELIAS

No. 88-2088.

852 F.2d 266 (1988)

George CLEAVER and Edith Cleaver, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James D. ELIAS and Laura J. Elias, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Snow, Snow & Snow, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Steven Sommerfield, Landau & Assoc., P.C., Downers Grove, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before COFFEY, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

A premature notice of appeal disrupts proceedings in the district court. That court must put the case aside and wait for this one to send the record back. Such a notice also imposes unjustified costs on the adversary, whose lawyers must monitor the case and file papers in two courts at once, and on the judges who must set things straight. Robert H. Snow, attorney for James and Laura Elias, has filed such a notice of appeal, after the district...

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