United States First Circuit

Vacatur of a district court's preliminary injunction and related orders is required when the parties settled a case on appeal and joined in requesting the vacatur, under the circumstances.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2003
• Published 03/20/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos, Solicitor General, Vanessa Lugo Flores, Deputy Solicitor General, Hiram A. Meléndez-Juarbe, Assistant Solicitor General, and Jaime Mercado-Almodóvar, Assistant Solicitor General, on the briefs for appellant., Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, Glenn S. Kaplan, Assistant Attorney General, Jesse M. Caplan, Assistant Attorney General, and Timothy E. Moran, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and nineteen other states, amici curiae., Kevin J. O'Connor, Jennifer L. Peterson, and La Follette Godfrey & Kahn, on the brief for the American Antitrust Institute, amicus curiae., Michael Stumo and Stumo & Milleron, LLC on the brief for the Organization for Competitive Markets and the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bernard W. Nussbaum, Michael H. Byowitz, George T. Conway III, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Rubén T. Nigaglioni, Raúl M. Arias, Veronica Ferraiuoli-Hornedo, and McConnell Vald́es on the briefs for appellees.