In re Air Crash Disaster at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987 v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

876 F.2d 103

Opinion

876 F.2d 103

Unpublished Disposition
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In re AIR CRASH DISASTER AT DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT ON
AUGUST 16, 1987, Plaintiff,
PLAINTIFFS' STEERING COMMITTEE, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Defendant-Appellant Third Party
Plaintiff-Appellant,
Texas Instruments; National Car Rental System, Inc.;
United States of America; Third Party Defendants-Appellees,
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 89-1479.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 13, 1989.

Before KENNEDY, NATHANIEL R. JONES and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

Appellees move to dismiss this appeal from the district court's order of February 23, 1989 which granted a severance and separate trials of Northwest's third party complaint and stayed all discovery with regard to the third party complaint, and the order of March 23, 1989 which partially denied Northwest's request to take factual liability depositions "in order to avoid substantial prejudice to Northwest". The long standing rule is that discovery orders are nonfinal and nonappealable. Butcher v. Bailey, 753 F.2d 465, 471 (6th Cir.), cert. dismissed, 473 U.S. 925 (1985); City of Cleveland v. Krupansky, 619 F.2d 572, 575 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 834 (1980).

Accordingly, the motion to dismiss is granted, and this appeal is dismissed.