Legal Opinion
Dersch Energies, Inc. v. Shell Oil Company and Equilon Enterprises, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 26, 2002No. 01-2495PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Dersch Energies, Inc. purchases Shell Oil Company products and resells them to retail distributors. In December 1997, Dersch began negotiating with Shell the renewal of their franchise relationship, which was set to expire in the fall of 1998. Throughout the negotiation process, Dersch expressed concerns to Shell about several contract provisions that it deemed objectionable. After ten months of negotiations, Shell (now operating as Equilon Enterprises, L.L.C. due to a merger) informed Dersch that unless it signed the proposed franchise agreement within the next few…
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