Legal Opinion
Trient Partners I Ltd. v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1996No. 95-21011PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
When this appeal is reduced to its bare essentials and stripped of all hyperbole, technical terminology, and obfuscatory theorizing, it presents a straightforward exercise in the interpretation of the provisions of two contracts: the “Agreement for System License” (the License Agreement); and a commercial store space lease — actually forty-three separate retail store space leases (the Leases). As the licensee of Defendant-Appellant Blockbuster,1 Plaintiff-Appellee Trient Partners I Ltd. (Trient) opened and operated forty-three Blockbuster “Superstores” at locations…
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