Legal Opinion
Continental Holdings, Inc. v. Crown Holdings Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 5, 2012No. 11-2203PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYE, Circuit Judge.
Continental Holdings, Inc. (“Continental”) sold its food and beverage metal can and can-end technology business to Crown Holdings, Inc. (“Crown”) via a stock purchase agreement (“SPA”) in March 1990. The parties disputed the extent of each other’s resultant liabilities, as defined by section 10.3(a)(iv) of the SPA — the indemnity provision — in concurrent binding arbitration and judicial proceedings. After the arbitrator issued a decision interpreting the provision at issue, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Crown on issue preclusion grounds, dismissed…
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