WILLIAM GRANT & SONS LTD. v. EUROPEAN BEVERAGES

No. CV 85-8110-ER.

668 F.Supp. 1421 (1987)

WILLIAM GRANT & SONS LIMITED and William Grant & Sons, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. EUROPEAN BEVERAGES CO. INC. and William Cadenhead Limited, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California.

August 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Kilmer and Lisa Mariorenzie-Muso, Mason, Fenwick & Lawrence, Washington, D.C., Reed M. Williams, Graham & James, Long Beach, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Breidenbach, Swainston, Crispo & Way, Los Angeles, Cal., James L. Kurtz, Washington, D.C., for defendants.


RAFEEDIE, District Judge.

According to an old adage, "Providence, having given Scotland a bad climate, bestowed on her, by way of compensation, a superlatively good whisky." Sir Robert Lockhart, Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story, 169 (8th ed. 1981). This case involves a dispute between the producers of two of those superlatively good whiskies.

Plaintiff William Grant & Sons Ltd, ("Grant Scotland") owns and operates The Glenfiddich...

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