Contempt

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7^th Circuit court of Appeals

Case Name: Teledyne Technologies Incorporated v. Raj Shekar

Case No.: 15-2349

Officials: BAUER, POSNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Contempt

Appellant files belated appeal of preliminary injunction, which is not under the jurisdiction of the appellate court and is therefore dismissed.

“In this case, Shekar argues that the district court erred in denying his motion to vacate the preliminary injunction because it did not apply the correct “criteria governing preliminary injunctive relief” and because “there is no basis in the evidentiary record for finding that preliminary injunctive relief was appropriate.” Shekar’s claim that the district court did not apply the correct criteria for issuing a preliminary injunction is wrong; the district court did apply the correct criteria when it originally issued the preliminary injunction on March 10, 2015. Furthermore, Shekar’s latter argument is essentially that the preliminary injunction should not have been entered in the first place; which is analogous to the appellant’s failed argument in Suter.”

Appeal Dismissed

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