CRYSTAL GROWER'S CORP. v. DOBBINS

No. 78-1451.

616 F.2d 458 (1980)

CRYSTAL GROWER'S CORPORATION, American Crystal Sugar Company, a Minnesota cooperative, American Crystal Sugar Company, a dissolved New Jersey Corporation, Wilburn Brekken and Arnet Weinlaeder, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Cris DOBBINS, C. W. Briggs, F. C. Zitkowski, Donald S. Graham, G. B. Aydelott, Stewart Cosgriff, Richard M. David, C. B. Flick, D. J. McGanney, Karl W. Mehlmann, John C. Mitchell and Harry T. Lewis, Jr., and United Bank of Denver, N. A., for E. Warren Willard, Deceased, and Davis, Graham & Stubbs, a partnership, the Boettcher Foundation, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, and Boettcher Realty Company, a Colorado Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer B. Trousdale of Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard & Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn. (Bradley G. Clary, Janice Mileo and Madge Thorsen of Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard & Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn., and William R. Humphrey and Fred Hamel of Humphrey & Hamel, Denver, Colo., with him on briefs), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Walter A. Steele of White & Steele, P. C., Denver, Colo. (James D. Hinga, Denver, Colo., with him on brief) for defendants-appellees Cris Dobbins, F. C. Zitkowski, Donald S. Graham, G. B. Aydelott, Stewart Cosgriff, Richard M. Davis, C. B. Flick, D. J. McGanney, Karl W. Mehlmann, John C. Mitchell and Harry T. Lewis, Jr., and United Bank of Denver, N. A., for E. Warren Willard, Deceased.

Robert J. Kapelke of Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Denver, Colo., on the brief for defendant-appellee C. W. Briggs.

Robert S. Warren of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal. (Ernest W. Lohf of Lohf & Barnhill, P. C., Denver, Colo., with him on brief), for defendant-appellee Boettcher Foundation.

H. Thomas Coghill and Jay Horowitz of Coghill, Goodspeed & Horowitz, Denver, Colo., on brief, for defendant-appellee Boettcher Realty Company.

Mitchell L. Lathrop, Travers D. Wood, Thomas S. Kiddle and Lawrence D. Steckmest of MacDonald, Halsted & Laybourne, Los Angeles, Cal., and Rodney R. Patula of Pryor, Carney & Johnson, Englewood, Colo., on brief, for defendant-appellee Davis, Graham & Stubbs.

Before HOLLOWAY, BARRETT and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

The question for decision is whether, under the circumstances of this case, we should order to be sealed the docketing statement, joint appendix, and appellate briefs filed in connection with an appeal to this Court. The question arises in the following context.

In 1972 Crystal Grower's Corporation (Crystal Grower's), owned by various sugar beet growers, and American Crystal Sugar Company (American Crystal) formulated a plan of purchase...

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