COLFAX ENVELOPE CORP. v. LOCAL NO. 458-3M, CHICAGO GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL UNION

No. 93-3010.

20 F.3d 750 (1994)

COLFAX ENVELOPE CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOCAL NO. 458-3M, CHICAGO GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean A. Dickie (argued), Michael I. Rothstein, Kathleen H. Klaus, Pope, Cahill & Devine, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Eugene Cotton, Thomas D. Allison, Robert H. Nichols (argued), James W. Green, Jr., Cotton, Watt, Jones & King, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, and McDADE, District Judge.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

This appeal in a suit over a collective bargaining agreement presents a fundamental issue of contract law, that of drawing the line between an ambiguous contract, requiring interpretation, and a contract that, because it cannot be said to represent the agreement of the parties at all, cannot be interpreted, can only be rescinded and the parties left to go their own ways. Colfax, the plaintiff, is a manufacturer of envelopes. It does some printing...

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