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IN RE MEDTRONIC, INC.

No. 98-3804.

184 F.3d 807 (1999)

In re MEDTRONIC, INC., Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Wrubel, New York, NY, Fran C. Hickman, Little Rock, AR, for petitioner.

Wendy M. Keats, DOJ, Washington, DC, Paula J. Casey, U.S. Atty., Little Rock, on amicus brief in support of petitioner.

Steven E. Cauley, Henry Hodges, Little Rock, AR, Clay Ragsdale, Birmingham, AL, for respondent.

BEFORE: BEAM, LOKEN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

BEAM, Circuit J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus or, in the alternative, a writ of prohibition soliciting relief from two discovery orders entered in a products liability case pending in the federal District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The underlying action, Doris Adcox v. Medtronic, Inc., No. LR-C-96-333, invokes the diversity jurisdiction of the court. We earlier stayed the disputed orders and now grant a writ of mandamus.

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