	burlington bur hearing to continue tomorrow u s district court judge eugene a gordon said he plans to issue a decision tomorrow on burlington industries inc s request for an injunction to stop samjens uisition corp s takeover bid for the company wall street sources have said the outcome of the case could be pivotal in determining the winner in the fierce takeover battle for burlington the largest u s textile maker gordon presided over six hours of argument today by lawyers for burlington and samjens a partnership formed by dominion textile inc and new york investor asher edelman hearings are scheduled to continue tomorrow a preliminary injunction would hold up samjens billion dlr offer until the case is decided burlington had previously agreed to a billion dlr buyout from morgan stanley group inc ms one dlr per share lower than a sweetened dlr per share bid made by samjens last week burlington has not responded to the new samjens offer burlington has alleged in its lawsuit that edelman and dominion used illegally obtained confidential information about the company in making their takeover attempt that information burlington said was provided by james ammeen a former burlington executive through painewebber group inc pwj ammeen who had worked for burlington for years had as many as divisions with pct of burlington s sales reporting to him when he left burlington in november burlington said he signed a contract promising never to divulge inside information about the company burlington lawyers said shortly after he left he began working with a painewebber employee on a hostile plan to takeover the company dismember the company and displace its management burlington lawyer hubert humphrey said samjens lawyers acknowledged it received information from painewebber but argued the information was public information and could be obtained either from texitle industry analysts or burlington s public financial statements burlington lawyers said painewebber and ammeen met with edelman and dominion in november and continued to meet with them until a couple of days before edelman and dominion went public april with their intention to take over the company burlington lawyers claim dominion s board decided to attempt a takeover of burlington after ammeen met with the board in february burlington lawyers said edelman and dominion held discussions with painewebber and ammeen about acting as financial advisers to samjens but they allege talks broke off because painewebber and ammeen could not satisfy edelman and dominion with a written statement that they did not provide inside information lawyers for samjens contended that painewebber and ammeen withdrew as potential advisers because burlington chairman frank greenberg had called a painewebber executive and threatened legal action if painewebber got involved in an effort to takeover burlilgnton the ultimate question is not the price per share or the profit but rather the permissable standards of conduct for those who would takeover an american company said burlington lawyer humphrey burlington lawyers also contended that burlington as the largest manufacturer of denim in the united states would be in violation of anti trust laws if it uired dominion canada s largest textile maker dominion has denim manufacturing plants in georgia which would reduce competition in the denim market the lawyers said samjens lawyers discounted the concern they said the market for denim is more fragmented than burlington contends and that burlington has the ability to switch between light weight and heavy weight denim production as demand and price dictate samjens lawyers also pointed to a lawsuit filed by burlington in canada in which it said it was considering a bid for dominion surely what would have been sauce for the goose would have been sauce for the gander said sidney rosdeitcher a samjens lawyer reuter 
