“In the instant case, the district court adopted PepsiCo’s proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law verbatim as the text for most of its opinion. As we have stated before, it is acceptable for a district court laboring under the time pressures of a preliminary injunction in addition to its already busy docket to adopt ‘many or most of the parties’ proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, particularly if skillfully and wisely drafted.’ That the district court so acts does not alter our basic standard of review. This action does, however, cause us some pause where, as here, the court changed nothing in a party’s submissions and even repeated that party’s typographical errors.” – Judge Flaum, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, PepsiCo, Inc. v. Redmond, 54 F.3d 1262 (1995), fn. 4 (internal cites omitted).
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