William J. Elliott v. William Thomas, Barbara Propst v. Morton W. Weir

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1991-09-04

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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, <a href="/opinion/111481/mitchell-v…

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