Legal Opinion
Agfa-Gevaert, A.G., and Agfa-Gevaert, N v. V. A.B. Dick Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 1989No. 88-2729PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Two affiliated European firms (collectively Agfa) brought this breach of contract suit against A.B. Dick Company under the alienage component of the diversity jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2)). The district judge directed a verdict for Agfa on the liability issues, and the jury then awarded Agfa $10.1 million — after conversion from Deutsche marks — in damages.
*1520Agfa had designed a low-volume, plain (i.e., uncoated) paper copier that it called the A-l. In 1978 it signed a contract with A.B. Dick making Dick the exclusive North American distributor of the A-l, which at…
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