THERMODYNE FOOD SERVICE PRODUCTS, INC. v. McDONALD'S CORP.

No. 95 C 6747.

960 F.Supp. 138 (1997)

THERMODYNE FOOD SERVICE PRODUCTS, INC., and Aftec, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. McDONALD'S CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

March 27, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig M. White, Jennifer Kathryn Walter, Andrew Erik Skopp, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, IL, Gene R. Leeuw, Klineman Rose Wolf and Wallack, Indianapolis, IN, William D. Swift, Swift and Finlayson, Fort Wayne, IN, Charleyne L. Gabriel, John M. Mead, Leeuw, Plopper & Earnest, P.C., Indianapolis, IN, for plaintiffs.

Dan K. Webb, Bruce Roger Braun, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Jack J. Carriglio, Richard G. Schultz, Carmen David Caruso, Jeffrey Charles Blumenthal, Steven Howard Gistenson, Marla Belson Wilneff, Foran & Schultz, Chicago, IL, Michael L. James, Baker and Daniels, Fort Wayne, IN, for McDonald's Corporation.

David L. Schiavone, Christopher Qualley King, Mary L. Mills, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, for Specialty Equipment Companies, Inc.

John Lawrence Conlon, Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberg & Krauss, Chicago, IL, Eric S. Rein, Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chicago, IL, for OSI Industries, Inc., Proddel Corporation, Gands Corporation, Beltec International.

Robert Eliot Shapiro, Gayle L. Yeatman, Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum, Perlman & Nagelberg, Chicago, IL, James R. Higgins, Jr., Middleton & Reutlinger, Louisville, KY, James N. Williams, Middleton and Reutlinger, New Albany, IN, for Liebco, Inc., Benno Liebermann.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs' motion to disqualify the law firm of Winston & Strawn as counsel for Defendant McDonald's Corporation. For the reasons discussed hereafter, the motion is granted.

I. BACKGROUND

A. GDR and Rice v. AFTEC and Tippman

Plaintiff Aftec Inc. ("AFTEC") was incorporated in 1984. In 1986...

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