eBook details
- Title: Futuresource Llc v. Reuters Limited
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 27, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
Description
The defendants in this diversity suit for breach of contract and tortious interference with contract (affiliated corporations that well call "Reuters") appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction to the plaintiff, FutureSource. The appeal raises issues of copyright and bankruptcy law, as well as of the common law of Illinois--actually theres no discussion of choice of law issues, and so we apply the law of the forum state. We note preliminarily that the district court based its decision entirely on an unreported district court decision from another circuit, that FutureSource places great reliance on that decision, and that Reuters is at pains to distinguish it. The reasoning of district judges is of course entitled to respect, but the decision of a district judge cannot be a controlling precedent. E.g., Colby v. J.C. Penney Co., 811 F.2d 1119, 1124 (7th Cir. 1987); Anderson v. Romero, 72 F.3d 518, 525 (7th Cir. 1995). The laws coherence could not be maintained if district courts were deemed to make law for their circuit, let alone for the nation, since district courts do not have circuit-wide or nationwide jurisdiction.