United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants on plaintiff's breach of contract claim and its interference with current and prospective business relations claim is reversed in a case by plaintiff, a soft drink bottler, involving its Exclusive Bottling Appointment and syrup appointment contracts with defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2005
• Published 12/21/2005

Judges

• BRISCOE, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, BRISCOE, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David W. Hauber, Baty, Holm & Numrich, P.C., Kansas City, MO, (Todd M. Johnson, Baty, Holm & Numrich, P.C., Kansas City, MO;  and William L. Kallal, William L. Kallal, P.C., Cheyenne, WY, with him on the briefs) for the plaintiff-appellant., Scott M. Mendel (John W. Rotunno, Erik F. Dyhrkopp, and Kara A. Elgersma, with him on the brief), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC, Chicago, IL, for amici curiae A.D. Huesing Bottling Works, Inc.;  Harco Distributors, Inc.;   Interactions, Inc.;  Lakeside Bottling Co.;  Lime Rock Springs Co.;   M.B.C. Inc.;   Newberry Bottling Company, Inc.;  North Star Beverage Company, Inc.;  Northern Bottling Co., Inc.;  Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Alliance, Inc.;  Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of N.E. Wisconsin, Inc.;   Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of New Haven, Missouri, Inc.;   Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Brookfield, Inc.;   Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Marysville, Inc.;   Pepsi-Cola Memphis Bottling Co., Inc.;   Pepsi-Cola of the Hudson Valley;  Refreshment Services, Inc.;  Southeastern Bottling Company of Arizona;  Stueber's Beverages, Inc.;   the Gillette Group, Inc., G. Jack Donson, Jr., Marcia V. Andrew, Jeanne M. Bruns, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Cincinnati, OH;  James B. Helmer, Jr., Frederick M. Morgan, Julie W. Popham, Helmer, Martins & Morgan Co., L.P.A., Cincinnati, OH, on the brief for amici curiae Central Investment Corporation and Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew J. Verschelden (David E. Everson, Jr., W. Dennis Cross, and Ann M. Scarlett, with him on the brief), Stinson, Morrison, Hecker LLP, Kansas City, MO, for the defendant-appellee PepsiCo, Inc., Andrew H. Schapiro (Richard M. Steuer and Matthew D. Ingber with him on the brief), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York, NY, for the defendant-appellee Bottling Group, LLC.