Supreme Court of California

A claim for damages for breach of a license agreement is barred under the doctrine of res judicata by a prior claim for specific performance, where both claims were based on violations of the same primary right.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2002
• Published 08/08/2002

Judges

•  MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Hayes Simpson Greene,Foley & Lardner, Kenneth S. Klein;  Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Daniel G. Lamb, Jr., San Diego, Kristen E. Caverly, Kelly C. Wooster, Thomas M. Peterson, San Francisco, and Brett M. Schulman for Plaintiffs and Appellants., Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants., Walter W. Heiser as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, David M. Axelrad, Jon B. Eisenberg, Andrea M. Gauthier, Encino;  Steptoe & Johnson, Lawrence P. Riff, Laurence F. Janssen, Jay E. Smith, Los Angeles;  and E. Allan Farnsworth for Defendant and Respondent., Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Kevin J. Dunne, Frederick D. Baker and Kirk C. Jenkins, San Francisco, for Lawyers for Civil Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent., Rex R. Perschbacher as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.