Legal Opinion
Kiper v. Novartis Crop Protection, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided June 7, 2002No. CIV.A. 00-528-B-M3Published
1Opinion of the Court
RULING
POLOZOLA, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the defendants’ 1 Motion To Dismiss Counts III and IV or Alternatively For Summary Judgment 2 . Because the Court considered matters outside of the pleadings in reaching its decision, the Court will treat this motion as a motion for summary judgment. 3 For reasons which follow, the defendant’s motion is GRANTED.
I. Background
The defendants, now collectively referred to as Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. (“Syngenta”), contracted with several engineering firms to provide services to their St. Gabriel plant. Each of the plaintiffs had…
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