HANSON TRUST PLC v. ML SCM ACQUISITION, INC.

Nos. 693, 726, Dockets 85-7951, 85-7953.

781 F.2d 264 (1986)

HANSON TRUST PLC, HSCM Industries Inc., Hanson Holdings Netherlands B.V., and HMAC Investments Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ML SCM ACQUISITION INC., ML L.B.O. Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch Capitol Partners, Inc., Merrill Lynch Capitol Markets, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, SCM Corporation, Paul H. Elicker, D. George Harris, Robert O. Bass, Robert P. Bauman, John T. Booth, George E. Hall, Crocker Nevin, Charles W. Parry, Thomas G. Pownall, E. Everett Smith, David W. Wallace, and Richard R. West, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Block, New York City, (Nancy E. Barton, Richard L. Levine, Stephen A. Radin, Patricia A. Olah, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York City, of counsel) and Milton S. Gould, New York City, (Peter C. Neger, Shea & Gould, New York City, of counsel), for Hanson Trust PLC, et al.

Bernard Nussbaum, New York City (Michael W. Schwartz, Robert B. Mazur, Theodore N. Mirvis, Eric M. Roth, Barbara Robbins, Karen B. Shaer, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, of counsel) and Bernard J. Nussbaum, Chicago, Ill. (Harold C. Hirshman, Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for SCM Corporation, et al.

Jeremy G. Epstein, New York City, (Robert S. Fischler, James P. Bodovitz, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, of counsel), for ML SCM Acquisition Inc., et al.

Before OAKES, KEARSE, and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

Hanson Trust PLC, HSCM Industries Inc., Hanson Holdings Netherlands B.V., and HMAC Investments Inc. (hereinafter sometimes referred to collectively as "Hanson") appeal from an order, dated November 26, 1985, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Shirley Wohl Kram, Judge, denying their motion for a preliminary injunction restraining Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and related entities...

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