INDIANA NAT. BANK v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

No. 77-2253.

578 F.2d 180 (1978)

The INDIANA NATIONAL BANK and Merchants National Bank & Trust Company of Indianapolis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry P. Belknap, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Theodore R. Boehm, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendant-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Circuit Judge, and MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge, and SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.


SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

The primary issues on this appeal are whether, where sophisticated parties agree to trigger delivery of securities under a tender offer by a "public announcement" of a stated event rather than by actual notice, the law nevertheless imposes a notice requirement on the offeror and whether, assuming that a "public announcement" is an appropriate way to trigger certain events, a press release is the proper and normal means of making a public announcement...

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