UNOCAL CORP. v. KAABIPOUR

Nos. 97-56324, 98-56216, 98-56631 and 98-56365.

177 F.3d 755 (1999)

UNOCAL CORPORATION; Union Oil Company of California, Plaintiffs-counter-claimants-Appellees, v. Ebrahim KAABIPOUR, dba, Sunnyvale Unocal & dba, Santa Clara Unocal; Hassan Khaziri; Hossain Khaziri; Mohsen Khaziri; Evergreen Union Services, Inc., dba Evergreen Unocal; Fariborz Nickbakhsh-Tali, Aka, Nick; Ali Raghian, dba, Al's Unocal; Thuy Gia Nguyen; Leavesley Rd. Union 76 Inc.; Noah Tollison; Tom W. Barnum, Dba, Cuperrino Union; David J. Joines, Dba, Unocal at North First and Brokaw; Ronald Gene Diedrich; Dba, La Jolla Tire and Service Center; Mark Horne; Vu Hadoung, dba, San Mateo Unocal; Tinoosh Eftekharian, dba, Sunnyside Unocal, Defendants-counter-claimants-Appellants. v. Tosco Corporation, Counter-defendant-Appellee. Charles Simmons; Yosuf Homayun; Seung K. Choi; David Avisrur; Mehran Mike Hariri; Meir Ben-david; Fred Pakzad; A.H.B. Properties, Inc.; Manasseh Bareh; Omid Badakhsh; Dalla, Inc.; Asghar Kholdi; v. Unocal Corporation; Union Oil Company of California; 76 Products Company, Inc.; Tosco Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Unocal Corporation; Union Oil Company of California, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Robert Cassel, Defendant, and Mohsen Khaziri; Charles Simmons; Lawrence E. Raether; Meir Ben-david; Sabour Andkhoy; Basir Andkhoy; Omid Badakhsh; Akbar Akrami; Sayed Hashemyar; Ata Tajyar, Steven Tedesco; Manasseh Bareh; David Avisrur; Mehran Mike Hariri; Javad S. Taat; Farhad Pakzad; Ali Majdi; Asghar Kholdi; Seung K. Choi; Mansoor Ghaneeian; Yosef Homayun; S.M.B. Corporation; A.H.B. Properties, Inc.; Sagahoh, Inc.; Warm Springs Unocal, Inc.; Dalla, Inc.; Best Care Unocal Auto Center, Inc.; Calabasas Unocal, Inc.; John Otte; George Benjamin, Defendants-Appellants. Bassam D. Hindi; Behrouz Shirdel; Mohamad irdel; Carpinteria Car Care, Inc.; Chi Tai; Daniel Lee O'Neal; Daniel W. Lentz; Faye Fouad; Ray Fouad; Frank E. Jakel; Gregory Mesna; Gwendolyn Mesna; Harry Perry; Hayk Bazik; Hovick G. Sadeghi; Javad Haghi; John Otte; Mauro Antenncei; Onnik Nick Mathevossian; Paul A. Hilles; Said Saidati; Salim Javahieri; Tracy Finnel; Van Duong; Bradley DeBoer; Emry Brothers Investments, a General Partnership; Dennis Azzarello; Vahanek Kupelian; M & K Enterprises, Inc., a California Corporation; Stephen Ng; Country Club Union, Inc.; John Hifai; Patricia Hilles; Saeid Sabour; Tommy Gendal, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tosco Corporation; T Northwest Properties II, Inc.; Clover Trust 1997-1, a Delaware Business Trust; Union Oil Company of California, a California corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Carroll and Richard L. Dooley, Law Offices of Carroll, Gilbert & Bachnor, Brea, California, for the defendants-counter-claimants-appellants in No. 97-56324.

Joseph M. Alioto, Alioto Law Firm, Daniel R. Shulman, Shulman, Walcott & Shulman, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the plaintiffs-appellants in No. 98-56216 and for the defendants-appellants in No. 98-56631.

Kenneth P. Roberts, Kenneth, Roberts, APLC, Woodland Hills, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants in No. 98-56365.

Kenneth L. Waggoner, John J. Wasilczyk and Earle Miller, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees Unocal Corporation and Union Oil Company of California.

Gregory N. Pimstone, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees Tosco Corporation.

Before: D.W. NELSON, FERNANDEZ, and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

These cases arise out of the withdrawal of Union Oil Company from the retail marketing of motor fuel in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. In so doing, Union Oil sold all of its marketing assets to Tosco Corporation. A number of former Union Oil franchisees objected to the sale on various grounds. The district court ruled against all of them and these appeals ensued.

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