ABBOTT LABORATORIES v. CENTAUR CHEMICAL CO.

Nos. 77 C 0602, 78 C 0665.

497 F.Supp. 269 (1980)

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Plaintiff, v. CENTAUR CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. and Fisher Scientific Company, Defendants. CENTAUR CHEMICAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

August 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald E. Larson, Allegretti, Newitt, Witcoff & McAndrews, Chicago, Ill., Robert D. Weist, North Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Arthur O. Klein, Klein & Levine, New York City, William M. Lee, Jr., Thomas E. Smith, Chicago, Ill., John M. Webb, Pittsburgh, Pa., Lee & Smith, David D. Kaufman, Chicago, Ill., John M. Webb, Webb, Burden, Robinson, Webb, Pittsburgh, Pa., Emmanuel J. Lobato, Robert E. Burns, New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") has moved that this Court enter an order disqualifying Gerson E. Meyers, R. Howard Goldsmith and the professional corporation known as Dressler, Goldsmith, Shore, Sutker and Milnamow, Ltd. (the "Dressler Firm") from representing Centaur Chemical Company ("Centaur") in the above-captioned cases. The grounds for the motion involve Abbott's claim that Ernest Cheslow, a partner...

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