Reproduction of CPC/Bestfoods complaint, as filed. Text highlighted in red was highlighted on the court documents. Substitute Order Of Contempt, Exhibit A

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PERCY L. CROSBY
His Life and Times (1891-1964) 		 

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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson


CPC'S FRAUD ON THE COURTS (1980-87)

In 1977, I met with CPC's in-house counsel, Hanes Heller, to discuss the legal claims of Skippy, Inc. and to seek a settlement without being forced to sue. My husband and I had moved to Virginia and had just learned that the federal public record in the Patent Office of Skippy's opposition against Rosefield Packing Co.(1933-34) had been "accidentally destroyed" in 1965-66, during the Crosby estate litigation in New York. Due to a pending lawsuit from Best Foods, this portion of the story has been temporarily deleted. Please email to joan@skippy.com if you are interested in learning more about this story.

No reputable attorney with a "high profile" case involving theft from a celebrity artist's estate would advise his client to file suit in the wrong jurisdiction, and insist

that Virginia was the client's "most favorable forum", while ignoring instructions to file in New York. But that is what Skippy's® counsel, Stephen Trattner, did in 1980, knowing that it was the forum of choice for CPC, Virginia being "the peanut capital of the world". Due to a pending lawsuit (see above) from Best Foods, this portion of the story has been temporarily deleted.

We appealed and in 1982 the Fourth Circuit upheld the 1934 final decision of the Patent Office for Skippy, Inc., vacating the lower court's declaratory judgment that CPC's Skippy® trademark was incontestable. CPC refused to heed the district judge's request for a certified order, and Trattner refused to take proper action. I fired him in 1982 for conniving at his client's defeat. Skippy, Inc. v. CPC International, Inc., 674 F. 2d 209, 4th Cir. 1982. Due to a pending lawsuit from Best Foods, this portion of the story has been temporarily deleted.
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