United States First Circuit

In a suit by a printing company alleging antitrust violations arising out of a newspaper group's policy that all supplements must be printed by a group-owned press, dismissal on grounds of collateral estoppel and res judicata is affirmed where: 1) there was no material distinction between the issues decided by the district court in a previous lawsuit between the parties and the issues plaintiff sought to have decided in the current lawsuit; 2) the changed circumstances alleged in plaintiff's second suit were legally insignificant and did not defeat collateral estoppel; and 3) every claim raised in this case was raised or could have been raised in the first case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2007
• Published 06/18/2007

Judges

• STAFFORD, Senior District Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAFFORD, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Camilo K. Salas III, with whom Salas & Co., L.C., John F. Nevares, and John F. Nevares and Associates P.S.C., were on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lee H. Simowitz, with whom Bruce W. Sanford, Mark A. Cymrot, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Salvador Antonetti-Zequeira, and Fiddler González & Rodríguez, PSC, were on brief, for appellees.