Legal Opinion
American Can Company v. Citrus Feed Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 4, 1971No. 29651_1PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge:
From the District Court’s order of disqualification of Covington & Burling, a law firm acting as American Can Company's trial counsel in a judgment creditor’s suit against Citrus Feed Company and others, American appeals. The disqualification resulted solely because of the Covington firm’s relationship with John Allison, an attorney whom American had retained as local counsel in Tampa, Florida. The District Judge applied a “double imputation” of knowledge theory — i. e., the judge initially imputed to Allison the knowledge of his partner in the firm of Mac-Farlane,…
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