UNITED LIQUORS, INC. v. CARILLON IMPORTERS, LTD.

No. 89-1541.

893 F.2d 1 (1989)

UNITED LIQUORS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. CARILLON IMPORTERS, LTD., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Caruso, with whom Ferriter, Scobbo, Sikora, Caruso & Rodophele, P.C., Boston, Mass., Louis Ederer and Buchman, O'Brien & Williams, New York City were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

James L. Quarles III, with whom William G. McElwain and Hale and Dorr, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BOWNES, Circuit Judge, and ALDRICH and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judges.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The usual case of exclusive distributorship involves an across-the-board line of products. See, e.g., Solman Distributors, Inc. v. Brown Forman Corp., 888 F.2d 170 (1st Cir.1989). A more complex question may arise when the exclusivity relates only to individual items, and in the liquor industry both questions may exist against a statutory backdrop affecting discontinuances. Id. The...

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