Atlantic City Electric Company v. A. B. Chance Company, and Electrical Equipment Antitrust Cases Pending in Various United States District Courts

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]o permit appellate review of this kind of discretionary discovery order, merely an intermediate step in these complex cases, would thwart rather than effectuate the purpose of 1292(b) to ‘materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.’ ”
• “Questions of this sort, involving the discretion of the judge in conducting pretrial discovery proceedings, should not be reviewed by an appellate court at this stage of a litigation except where there has been a manifest abuse of discretion.”
• “Questions of this sort, involving the discretion of the judge in conducting pre- trial discovery proceedings, should not be reviewed by an appellate court at this stage of a litigation except where there has been a manifest abuse of discretion.”
• “ a court may order the disclosure of grand jury minutes when there is a showing of special and compelling circumstances sufficient to overcome the policy against disclo­ sure” ; no reference to Rule 6(e) as source of such judicial authority

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