GREAT RIVERS CO-OP v. FARMLAND INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 95-1249.

59 F.3d 764 (1995)

GREAT RIVERS COOPERATIVE OF SOUTHEASTERN IOWA, an Iowa farm cooperative; Sawyer Cooperative Equity Exchange, a Kansas farm cooperative; Roger Tacey, a Nebraska resident, Appellees, v. FARMLAND INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry W. Schackmann, Kansas City, MO, argued (Thomas B. Read and Brad J. Brady, Cedar Rapids, IA, and William C. Martucci, Theresa M. Schuele, and Jennifer A. Downs, Kansas City, MO, on brief), for appellant.

Frank A. Taylor, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Patrick A. Reinken, Minneapolis, MN, on brief), for appellees.

Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, ROSS, and WOOD, Senior Circuit Judges.


MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to review a district court's order in a class-action lawsuit restricting defendant from making any statement that might be understood as counseling potential class plaintiffs to opt out of the class, and requiring the defendant to print in its newsletter a statement from plaintiffs regarding their litigation.

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