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ELLIOTT v. THOMAS

Nos. 90-1168, 90-2093 and 90-2146.

937 F.2d 338 (1991)

William J. ELLIOTT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William THOMAS, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Barbara PROPST, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Morton W. WEIR, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Kelly, Walter C. Carlson, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for William J. Elliott.

Judson H. Miner, Sharon M. Sullivan, Asst. Corporate Counsel, Kelly R. Welsh, Asst. Corporate Counsel, Bertina Lampkin, Ruth M. Moscovitch, Asst. Corporate Counsel, Appeals Div., Frederick S. Rhine, Asst. Corporate Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for William Thomas, Richard Cap, Robert J. Baker and Virgil Mikus.

Robert Kirchner, Lerner & Kirchner, Champaign, Ill., for Barbara Propst.

John W. Leskera, Dunham, Boman & Leskera, East St. Louis, Ill., for Donald L. Bitzer.

Arnold F. Blockman, Jerome P. Lyke, Hatch, Blockman, McPheters, Fehrenbacher & Lyke, Champaign, Ill., James C. Kearns, Bradford J. Peterson, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Urbana, Ill., for Morton W. Weir, Judith S. Liebman and Robert M. Berdahl.

Michael M. Conway, Julie L. Gage, Hopkins & Sutter, Chicago, Ill., for Robert M. Berdahl.

Before EASTERBROOK and MANION, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied in Nos. 90-1168 and 90-2093 September 4, 1991.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

These cases present a common question of appellate jurisdiction: whether a court's refusal to grant summary judgment to a defendant who denies committing any wrong may be appealed immediately as a "collateral order" on the authority of Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 524-29, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 2814-17, 86...

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