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ALLENDALE MUT. INS. v. BULL DATA SYSTEMS

No. 93-2389.

10 F.3d 425 (1993)

ALLENDALE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY and Factory Mutual International, Plaintiffs-Counterdefendants-Appellees, and Alexander & Alexander, Counterdefendant, v. BULL DATA SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED, Zenith Data Systems, S.A. and Zenith Data Systems Europe, S.A., Defendants-Counterplaintiffs-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Michael Kalec, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, Franklin M. Sachs (argued), H. Richard Chattman, Rebecca Levy Sachs, Marianne C. Tolomeo, Podvey, Sachs, Meanor, Catenacci, Hildner & Cocoziello, Newark, NJ, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Bruce E. Fader (argued), Steven C. Krane, Nancy J. Kilson, James F. Parver, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, George L. Saunders, Jr., Thomas F. Bush, Jr., Thomas A. Doyle, Saunders & Monroe, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellants.

Peter L. Zimroth, Peter G. Neiman, Arnold & Porter, New York City, for Commission De Controle Des Assurances, amicus curiae.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

This appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction in a $100 million dollar suit over insurance coverage raises difficult and important questions concerning the power of a federal district judge to enjoin a party before it from litigating a suit in a foreign country. There is also an esoteric jurisdictional question.

Groupe Bull is one of Europe's largest manufacturers of computers and computer software. The parent company in the Groupe...

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