MID-AMERICAN SALT v. MORRIS COUNTY COOP. PRICING

No. 18-2112.

964 F.3d 218 (2020)

MID-AMERICAN SALT, LLC, Appellant, v. MORRIS COUNTY COOPERATIVE PRICING COUNCIL; Clinton Township; Flemington Borough; Franklin Township (Somerset County); Glen Gardner Borough; Lebanon Township; Raritan Township; Readington Township; Hunterdon County; City of Clifron; Haledon Borough; Hawthorne Borough; Little Falls Township; Ringwood Borough; Wayne Township; West Milford Township; West Milford Board of Education; Woodland Park Borough; Passaic County; Bernards Township; Bernardsville Borough; Hillsborough Township; Montgomery Township; Watchung Borough; Warren Township, Nj; Warren Township Board of Education; Somerset County; Andover Township; Branchville Borough; Byram Township; Frankford Township; Green Township; Hamburg Borough; Hampton Township; Hopatcong Borough; Town of Newton; Sandyston Township; Sparta Township; Stanhope Borough; Vernon Township; Wantage Township; Sussex County; Hillside Township; New Providence Borough; Roselle Borough; City of Summit; Town of Westfield; Union County; Franklin Township (Hunterdon County), Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: July 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie L. Hersperger [ARGUED], Pion, Nerone, Girman, Winslow & Smith, P.C., 240 North 3rd Street, Payne Shoemaker Building, 10th Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17101, Frederick R. Damm , Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, PLC, 535 Griswold Street, Suite 1818, Detroit, MI 49266, Attorneys for Appellant Mid-American Salt, LLC.

Edward J. Buzak [ARGUED], Susan L. Crawford , The Buzak Law Group, LLC, 150 River Road, Suite N4, Montville, NJ 07045, Attorney for Appellee Morris County Cooperative Pricing Council.

Richard J. Guss , DiFrancesco Bateman Coley Yospin Kunzman Davis & Lehrer, 15 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, NJ 07059, Attorney for Appellees Township of Raritan; Township of Bernards; Borough of Watchung & Township of Warren.

Andrew P. Oddo , 425 Grant Avenue, Oradell, NJ 079649, Attorney for Appellee Borough of Haledon.

Jonathan Testa [ARGUED], Dorsey & Semrau, 714 Main Street, P.O. Box 228, Boonton, NJ 07005, Susan C. Sharpe , Dorsey & Semrau, 714 Main Street, P.O. Box 228, Boonton, NJ 07005, Attorneys for Appellee Township of Little Falls; Township of West Milford; Township of Andover & Borough of Bloomingdale.

Jonathan Testa [ARGUED], Dorsey & Semrau, 714 Main Street, P.O. Box 228, Boonton, NJ 07005, Anthony P. Seijas , Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri & Jacobs, 169 Ramapo Valley Road, Upper Level 105, Oakland, NJ 07436, Attorneys for Appellee Township of Wayne.

Albert C. Buglione , Buglione Hutton & DeYoe, 401 Hamburg Turnpike, Suite 206, Wayne, NJ 07474, Attorney for Appellee Borough of Woodland Park.

Robert B. McBriar , Schenck Price Smith & King, 351 Sparta Avenue, Sparta, NJ 07871, Attorney for Appellee Borough of Hopatcong.

Ursula H. Leo , Laddey Clark & Ryan, 60 Blue Heron Road, Suite 300, Sparta, NJ 07871, Attorney for Appellee Township of Sparta.

Donald A. Klein , Weiner Law Group, 629 Parsippany Road, P.O. Box 438, Parsippany, NJ 07054, Attorney for Appellee Township of Wantage.

Katharine A. Fina , Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Cappelli, 235 Broubalow Way, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865, Lester E. Taylor, III , Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, 218 Route 17 North, Suite 410, Rochelle Park, NJ 07662, Attorneys for Appellee Borough of Roselle.

Louis N. Rainone , Brian P. Trelease , Rainone Coughlin Minchello, 555 U.S. Highway One South, Suite 440, Iselin, NJ 08830, Attorney for Appellee Township of Franklin.

Andrew Gimigliano , Joshua A. Zielinski , O'Toole Scrivo Fernandez Weiner Van Lieu, 14 Village Park Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07921, Attorney for Appellee Township of Vernon.

Before: HARDIMAN, PHIPPS, and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal involves a contract dispute arising under New Jersey law. Appellant Mid-American Salt, LLC contracted with the Morris County Cooperative Pricing Council to provide its members with bulk rock salt at negotiated prices. But several of the Council's members bought no salt from Mid...

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