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HUMETRIX, INC. v. GEMPLUS S.C.A.

Nos. 99-56068, 00-55636.

268 F.3d 910 (2001)

HUMETRIX, INC., a California corporation; Bettina Experton, Doctor, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GEMPLUS S.C.A., a French corporation; Guy Guistini, Defendants-Appellants, and Marc Lassus; Bruno Lassus, Doctor; Inovaction S.A.R.L., a French corporation; Pierre Andrei; Max Micoud, Doctor, Defendants. Humetrix, Inc., a California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Bettina Experton, Doctor, Plaintiff, v. Gemplus S.C.A., a French corporation; Marc Lassus; Bruno Lassus, Doctor; Guy Guistini; Pierre Andrei; Max Micoud, Doctor, Defendants, and Inovaction S.A.R.L., a French corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted September 21, 2001.

Filed October 4, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Davis, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, California; Andrew L. Deutsch, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, New York, New York, for the defendants-appellants.

Sarah R. Wolff, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, Illinois, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and Barbara C Biddle and Jeffrey Clair, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, amicus curiae.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and JEREMY D. FOGEL, District Judge.

Argued March 6, 2001. — Pasadena, California.

RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Happy contractual relationships are all alike; but every unhappy contractual relationship is unhappy in its own way.1

In this case, a United States health care consulting company, Humetrix, Inc. ("Humetrix"), contracted with the world's leading manufacturer of Smart Card technology, Gemplus S.C.A. ("Gemplus"), to provide portable patient...

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