BANCO DEL ATLANTICO, S.A. v. WOODS INDUSTRIES INC.

No. 07-2238.

519 F.3d 350 (2008)

BANCO DEL ATLANTICO, S.A. and HSBC Mexico, S.A., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WOODS INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED, Willow Properties, Inc., Nahum Shar, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 7, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James V. O'Gara, William C. Heck (argued), Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Andrew L. Frey, Mayer Brown, New York, NY, Charles A. Rothfeld (argued), Mayer Brown, Washington, DC, William L. O'Connor, Dann, Pecar, Newman & Kleiman, Indianapolis, IN, Barry S. Alberts, Schiff Hardin, Chicago, IL, Michael J. Andreoli, Andreoli & Jacob, Zionsville, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This case is a dozen years old, which would ordinarily mean that the issue raised on appeal should certainly not be about discovery. But this is not your ordinary case. Its history is extraordinary — extraordinarily troublesome. The case was pending in a federal district court in Texas for over seven years and has been pending in a federal district court in Indiana for five. But after all this...

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