Legal Opinion
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Elizabethtown, Inc. v. Coca-Cola Co.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided August 2, 1988No. Civ. A. 81-48 (MMS), 87-398 (MMS)PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
There are several motions now pending before the Court in this case (the “Coke case”) and in two other cases (C.A. Nos. 83-95 and 83-120, the “diet Coke cases”), 1 involving, inter alia, contract claims between The Coca-Cola Company (the “Company”) and certain of its bottlers (the “bottlers”). The bottlers brought the Coke case in 1981, charging that the Company had breached its agreements with them by supplying Coca-Cola syrup sweetened with fructose (high-fructose corn syrup or “HFCS”) rather than sucrose — without the bottlers’ consent. The bottlers…
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