CONOPCO, INC. v. ROLL INTERN.

Docket No. 00-7012.

231 F.3d 82 (2000)

CONOPCO, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROLL INTERNATIONAL and Paramount Farms, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. August Term, 1999.

Decided: November 3, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Serio, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Thomas C. Sheehan, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Andrew S. Clare, Loeb & Loeb, LLP, Los Angeles, CA (Lawrence B. Gutcho, of counsel, P. Gregory Schwed and Maria L. Zanfini, Loeb & Loeb, New York, NY, of counsel, Hillel Chodos, Los Angeles, CA, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, PARKER, Circuit Judges, and DORSEY, District Judge.


Judge DORSEY dissents in a separate opinion.

BACKGROUND

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

This civil procedure morass arises from the sale by Conopco, Inc. d/b/a Lipton ("Conopco") of its Sunkist brand fruit roll snack business to Roll International Corporation ("Roll") and Roll's wholly-owned subsidiary Paramount Farms, Inc. ("Paramount"). Under a purchase agreement signed in June 1995 (the "Purchase Agreement"), Conopco agreed to transfer its existing...

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