United States Fourth Circuit

In a breach of contract action, summary judgement and denial of judgment as a matter of law on claims for unfair competition and breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing are reversed, and compensatory and punitive damage awards are vacated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/09/2003
• Published 07/09/2003

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and BEAM, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Carter G. Phillips, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Howard M. Shapiro, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:Joseph R. Guerra, Jonathan F. Cohn, Eric A. Shumsky, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  John R. Dawson, Nancy J. Sennett, James T. McKeown, Michael J. Aprahamian, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Appellant.  Louis R. Cohen, A. Stephen Hut, Jr., Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.