COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF SHREVEPORT, INC. v. COCA-COLA CO.

No. 91-3497.

988 F.2d 414 (1993)

COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF SHREVEPORT, INC.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown, Inc.; Owensboro Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.; Texarkana Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Coca-Cola Bottling Company (San Angelo); Las Cruces Coca-Cola Bottling Company; The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Tucson, Inc.; Jackson Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Wichita Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Permian Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Marshall Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Liquidating Trust Company; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Tulsa, Inc.; Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Incorporated; New Bern Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc.; Magnolia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.; The Coca-Cola Bottling Company (Fort Smith); Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Jamestown; Hattiesburg Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Plymouth Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.; Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Natchez Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Central Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Decatur Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Williston (North Dakota); Richmond Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Mt. Pleasant; Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Muskegon; Mary Louise Goodrich; Mary Louise Kay Robinson, individually and as trustee of the Kendall family inter vivos trust; Ann Kay Hobson Haack, individually and as trustee of the Kendall family inter vivos trust; John K. Hobson; Margaret Dodge Hobson, individually and as trustee of the Kendall family inter vivos trust (Subst. for Natchez Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.) Oliver C. Hutaff, Jr., as Trustee under Shareholders' Lawsuit Trust Agreement (Subst. for Wilmington Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc. and Kelford Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc.) v. The COCA-COLA COMPANY, Arkansas-Georgia Company, Inc.; Central Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Dickinson; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown, Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Jamestown; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of LaCrosse, Inc.; Las Cruces Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Love Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Magnolia Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Marshall Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Natchez Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Plymouth Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company (San Angelo); Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Shelbyville, Inc.; The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Tucson, Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Tulsa, Inc.; Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Williston; Oliver C. Hutaff, Jr., as Trustee under Shareholders' Lawsuit Trust Agreement (Subst. for Wilmington Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc. and Kelford Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc.), Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse A. Finkelstein, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE, Emmet J. Bondurant, II and Jane E. Fahey (argued), Jeffrey D. Horst, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, GA for appellants.

Richard D. Allen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, Michael C. Russ (argued), George S. Branch, William F. Lummus, Jr., King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for The Coca-Cola Co.

Before: HUTCHINSON, ALITO and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.

This is a companion to the case that is the subject of our opinion of even date disposing of the two consolidated appeals at our Docket Nos. 91-3496 and 91-3498, 988 F.2d 386. We will refer to that case as the "Coke case" and our opinion disposing of it as Coke VIII. We will refer to this case as the "diet Coke case" and to this opinion as diet Coke VIII. In ...

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