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WLR FOODS, INC. v. TYSON FOODS, INC.

No. 95-1039.

65 F.3d 1172 (1995)

WLR FOODS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TYSON FOODS, INCORPORATED; WLR Acquisition Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, William H. Groseclose; Herman D. Mason; George E. Bryan; Calvin G. Germroth; Charles W. Wampler, Jr.; James L. Keeler; Charles L. Campbell; Stephen W. Custer; J. Craig Hott; William D. Wampler, Defendants-Appellees, Albemarle Corporation; Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated; Cadmus Communications Corporation; Central Fidelity Banks, Incorporated; CFW Communications Company; Chesapeake Corporation; Crestar Financial Corporation; CSX Corporation; Dana Corporation; Dibrell Brothers, Incorporated; Ethyl Corporation; Executone Information Systems, Incorporated; First Colony Corporation; Garan, Incorporated; James River Corporation; Lawyers Title Corporation; Media General, Inc.; Olin Corporation; Owens & Minor, Inc.; Philip Morris Companies, Incorporated; Piedmont Bankgroup, Incorporated; The Pittston Company; TFC Enterprises, Incorporated; Tredegar Industries, Incorporated; Union Camp Corporation; United Dominion Realty Trust, Incorporated; Universal Corporation; Commonwealth of Virginia, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Richard Chase Tufaro, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Washington, DC, for appellants. Douglas Leigh Guynn, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, P.L.C., Harrisonburg, VA, for appellees. ON BRIEF: Thomas F. Farrell, II, Thomas E. Spahn, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, for appellants. Thomas E. Ulrich, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, P.L.C., Harrisonburg, VA, for appellee WLR Foods; John W. Zunka, Richard H. Milnor, Taylor, Zunka, Milnor & Carter, Ltd., Charlottesville, VA, for appellees Bryan, et al. F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr., James S. Crockett, Jr., Mays & Valentine, Richmond, VA, for amici curiae Albemarle Corp., et al. James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General of Virginia, Catherine C. Hammond, Deputy Attorney General, Richard B. Zorn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John B. Sternlicht, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, VA, for amicus curiae Commonwealth of Virginia.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge ERVIN and Senior Judge PHILLIPS joined.

OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

The instant case arose from an attempt by Tyson Foods, Inc. ("Tyson"), a nationwide poultry producer, to acquire WLR Foods, Inc. ("WLR"), a chicken and turkey producer. In early 1994, Tyson engaged in extensive discussions with certain members of WLR's Board of Directors ("the WLR Board"...

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