Bristol Lab. Div. of Bristol-Myers Co. v. Staats

MEMORANDUM

LASKER, District Judge.

This case arises out of a dispute between Bristol Laboratories Division of Bristol-Myers Company (Bristol) and Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of the United States, regarding the scope of Staats’ contractual right to inspect Bristol’s books and records. Bristol and the United States, as intervenor-defendant, seek a declaration of their respective rights and a corresponding injunction. The parties have renewed cross-motions for summary judgment. 1 Since no disputed issues of fact remain, the case is ripe for determination.

In 1973 and 1974 Bristol was…