Ceres Assoc. Sales & Mktg., Inc. v. Veridian Corp.

By Judge Arthur B. Vieregg

This letter opinion is written to supplement my ruling striking the evidence of plaintiff Ceres Associates Sales and Marketing, Incorporated (“Ceres”) at the conclusion of Ceres’ case-in-chief in the July 22,2003, trial of the captioned case. I granted the defendant Veridian’s motion to strike based on the argument that Ceres’ evidence demonstrated that a partnership, Iris Perry & Associates, Inc. (“IPA”), not Ceres, was the party to the contract sued upon and accordingly Ceres did not have standing to prosecute this contract action. Veridian, however, had moved to…