United States First Circuit

District court acted within its discretion in imposing an international antisuit injunction against defendant, a Belgian company with a major US presence, enjoining it from pursuing litigation in Belgium calculated to generate interference with an ongoing US securities fraud case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2004
• Published 03/08/2004

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and DICLERICO, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ira M. Feinberg, with whom George A. Salter, John A. Redmon, Nicholas W.C. Corson, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Michael J. Stone, and Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Glen DeValerio, with whom Jeffrey C. Block, Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo, Steven E. Cauley, Curtis L. Bowman, Cauley Geller Bowman Coates & Rudman, LLP, Lee S. Shalov, James Bonner, Patrick L. Rocco, Shalov Stone & Bonner LLP, Gregory P. Joseph, Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC, Steven Singer, Erik Sandstedt, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Jack R. Pirozzolo Professional Corporation, Willcox, Pirozzolo & McCarthy, Terrence K. Ankner, Partridge Ankner & Horstmann LLP, Karen C. Dyer, and Boies Schiller & Flexner were on brief, for appellees.