UNISYS CORP. v. DATAWARE PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 87-2069.

848 F.2d 311 (1988)

UNISYS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. DATAWARE PRODUCTS, INC. and William J. Cunningham, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Potters with whom LaDonna J. Hatton and Potters & Sands, P.C., Boston, Mass., were on brief for defendants, appellants.

William N. Berkowitz with whom William A. McCormack, Sarah M. Morison and Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., were on brief for plaintiff, appellee.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges both the capacity of the district court to issue, and its discretion in issuing, preliminary relief in a suit brought against Dataware Products, Inc. (DPI), a successor corporation to Dataware Sources, Inc. (DSI), a company involved in Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.

The case arose from the following circumstances. In late 1982, DSI became a nonexclusive distributor of computer hardware and software products...

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