SOUTHWEST PET PRODUCTS, INC. v. KOCH INDUSTRIES

No. CIV.A.95-2531PHX-RGS.

107 F.Supp.2d 1108 (2000)

SOUTHWEST PET PRODUCTS, INC., an Arizona Corporation; Earth Elements, Inc., f/d/b/a Nature's Recipe Pet Foods, Plaintiff, v. KOCH INDUSTRIES, INC.; Koch Agriculture, Inc.; Koch Agri Services; Benson-Quinn Company; Harvest States Cooperatives, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Arizona.

June 12, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A Craft, Michael R King, Gammage & Burnham PLC, Phoenix, AZ, Peter J Mort, John W Vineyard, David Thomas Bristow, Irena Leigh Norton, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Riverside, CA, for Southwest Pet Products, Inc.

Gary E Cripe, Cripe & Graham, Upland, CA, Peter J Mort, John W Vineyard, David Thomas Bristow, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Riverside, CA, for Earth Elements Inc.

Thomas G Ryan, Lewis & Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, Michael Anthony Ceramella, Robert J McCully, Dean Kuckelman, Koch Industries Inc, Wichita, KS, for Koch Industries Inc.

Mark Allen Mitchell, Marc Andre Al, Rider Bennett Egan & Arundel, LLP, Minneapolis, MN, for Benson-Quinn Co.

Mary G Isban, Phoenix, AZ, Robert J Bruno, Teilborg Sanders & Parks PC, Phoenix, AZ, Barry R Schirm, David K Schultz, Grace Genson Cosgrove & Schirm, Los Angeles, CA, for Harvest States Cooperative.

Thomas G Ryan, Randall Pepetti, Lewis & Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, William G. Levi, Lana M. Knedlik, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Kansas City, MO, Michael Anthony Ceramella, Robert J McCully, Dean Kuckelman, Koch Industries Inc, Wichita, KS, for Koch Agr. Inc.

Thomas G Ryan, Randall Pepetti, Lewis & Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, Michael Anthony Ceramella, Robert J McCully, Koch Industries Inc, Wichita, KS, for Koch Agr. Services.

Gerald Gaffaney, Scot L Claus, Mariscal Weeks McIntyre & Friedlander PA, Phoenix, AZ, for Wasatch Laboratories, Ltd.


MEMORANDUM

WILLIAM G. YOUNG, District Judge.1

I. Introduction

This blunderbuss civil action is, at bottom, a fairly straightforward claim for breach of contract. In Southwest Pet Prods., Inc. v. Koch Indus., Inc., 89 F.Supp.2d 1115 (D.Ariz.2000) ("Southwest I"), this Court tried to cut the litigation sprawl down to size. Now, with trial looming, the...

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