Opinion ID: 2994958
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Heading: standard of review

Text: Plaintiffs challenge a number of procedural rulings made by the district court over the course of this litigation. We will overturn these rulings only if we determine that the court abused its discretion. ’Abuse of discretion’ means something more than our belief that we would have acted differently if placed in the circumstance confronting the district judge. Anderson v. United Parcel Serv., 915 F.2d 313, 315 (7th Cir. 1990). The district court’s decision must strike us as fundamentally wrong for an abuse of discretion to occur. Id. However, we must still scrutinize the district court’s determination to ensure that it invoked the correct legal standards and that its findings of fact are not clearly erroneous. Salgado by Salgado v. General Motors Corp., 150 F.3d 735, 739 (7th Cir. 1998).