Court Opinion

ID: 9506447
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:02:49.635015+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:56.726608
License: Public Domain

JENNIFER WALEER ELROD, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. I disagree with the majority opinion’s conclusion that the Master Settlement Agreement (“MSA”) does not incorporate the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger. Moreover, even if the majority opinion’s interpretation of the MSA were correct, Texas Employers’ Association v. Jackson, 862 F.2d 491 (5th Cir.1988), and its progeny would bar the declaratory relief Euhlman Electric Corporation seeks; therefore, the district court should not have considered the merits of the motion for declaratory relief.