Legal Opinion
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. v. Vanguard Transportation Systems, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 12, 2009No. 06 C 5837PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.
INTRODUCTION
This breach of contract dispute proves the wisdom of Shakespeare’s injunction, “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.” Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, sc. ii 1.331 (1592). The case arose from an admittedly delayed delivery by Vanguard Transportation Systems of advertising brochures announcing a post-Christmas Macy’s sale in Florida. The brochures were delivered to Donnelley’s distribution center in Atlanta on December 27, 2005— eleven days after the promised date of delivery. By then it was too late to mail the brochures to Macy’s…
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