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- Title: Ddi Seamless Cylinder International, Inc. v. General Fire Extinguisher Corp.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 20, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
Description
This procedurally remarkable case began life innocently enough as a routine contract suit brought in federal district court under the diversity jurisdiction. The principal (and we shall assume only) plaintiff, DDI, manufactures the metal cylinders used in fire extinguishers. The defendant, General Fire, manufactures the extinguishers themselves. General Fire agreed to purchase a large quantity of cylinders from DDI. But after DDI had tooled up to produce the cylinders for the contract and begun producing them, General Fire repudiated the contract. It complained that the cylinders were defective and, perhaps more to the point, that "the fire extinguisher market has been on a slide downward and frankly, the market is no longer here." In 1989 DDI brought suit for breach of contract, seeking damages of more than $400,000. The case was assigned to Judge Aspen, who suggested the name of a law professor to mediate the parties dispute. After the professor failed and after the district courts champion settler, Judge (now ex-Judge) Bua, failed too, the parties, concerned that Judge Aspens crowded docket would require them to wait a year or more for trial, agreed to have the case tried before a magistrate Judge. The case was assigned to Magistrate Judge Bobrick. He also thought the case should be settled rather than tried. Protracted efforts at settlement ensued but were unsuccessful. Then the lawyers had a brainstorm: appoint Judge Bobrick the arbitrator of their dispute.