Legal Opinion
Terkildsen v. Waters
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 27, 1973No. Nos. 842, 958, Dockets 73-1050, 73-1149PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
This bitter litigation is an object lesson on the virtues of the individual calendar system and the burden imposed by diversity jurisdiction on the increasingly overcrowded dockets of the federal district courts.1 The dispute grows out of a contract between competitors, both then based in New York City, in which plaintiff Jean T. Terkildsen sold her business to defendants, co-partners doing business under the name of Haseltine, Lake and Co. The complaint was filed in October 1968, and the five and one-half pages of docket entries in the United States District Court for…
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- Julien J. Studley, Inc. v. Gulf Oil CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Jack Meyers v. The Selznick Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
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