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113690P.pdf   09/07/2012  H & R Block Tax Services LLC  v.  Deanna Franklin
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3690
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Beam and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Franchise law. Where the franchise agreements provided
   that the defendants could terminate at any time but only affirmatively
   allowed Block to terminate for cause, the contracts did not unequivocally
   express the parties' intent for the contracts to last forever, and the district
   court erred in finding that the language was to be interpreted so that the
   agreements would continue in perpetuity unless the franchisee chose to
   terminate or Block terminated for cause. Judge Smith, dissenting.