Whiting Corp. v. White Machinery Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• the district court “possesses broad discretion in determining whether disqualification is required in a particular case.... ”
• Law firm permitted to represent plaintiff in civil action even though it continued to represent a non-party corporation which owned 20% of defendant corporation and elected 40% of defendant’s board of directors in matters unrelated to the suit.
• motion to disqualify plaintiff’s law firm denied but law firm’s representation of non-party touching upon the subject matter of litigation ordered curtailed where non-party corporation owned 20% of the stock and appointed 40% of the Board of Directors of defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Panduit Corp. v. All States Plastic Manufacturing Co., Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 1984-09-25· cited 279×
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Gulf Oil Corporation, and United Nuclear Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-12-08· cited 159×
• Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-07-25· cited 127×
• Watkins v. Trans Union, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-08-22· cited 79×
• Melamed v. ITT Continental Baking Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-01-24· cited 48×
• James Edward Wagner v. Jerry T. Williford, Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-01-30· cited 28×
• Ransburg Corp. v. Champion Spark Plug Co.
  N.D. Illinois· 1986-06-30· cited 20×
• Pennwalt Corp. v. Plough, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 1980-01-18· cited 20×
• Robin v. Doctors Officenters Corp.
  N.D. Illinois· 1988-05-04· cited 13×
• Kerry Coal Co. v. United Mine Wkrs. of America
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 8×
• In Re Sharpe
  N.D. Illinois· 1989-04-06· cited 8×
• Flo-Con Systems, Inc. v. Servsteel, Inc.
  N.D. Indiana· 1990-04-25· cited 6×
• Matter of Allied Artists Pictures Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1982-01-27· cited 4×
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Kerr-M Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-08-17· cited 3×
• Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. May Department Stores Co.
  N.D. Illinois· 1986-07-09· cited 3×
• Matter of Nephi Rubber Products Corp.
  N.D. Indiana· 1990-10-17· cited 3×
• Taxpayers, Homeowners and Tenants Protective Association, Inc., a Florida Non-Profit Corporation v. Leonard Haber, as Mayor and Individually
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-01-12· cited 2×
• General Electric Co. v. Industra Products, Inc.
  N.D. Indiana· 1988-04-20· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-12-07
• Melamed v. Itt Continental Baking Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-01-24