United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of a contract and tort action involving an alleged conspiracy to conceal certain stock appraisals on grounds of res judicata is reversed and remanded where the district court erred by applying federal law of res judicata rather than Virginia law of res judicata.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2006
• Published 03/20/2006

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Craig Crandall Reilly, Richards, McGettigan, Reilly & West, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Patrick Hyung-Jin Kim, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C.;  Richard Thomas Tomar, Karp, Frosh, Lapidus, Wigodsky & Norwind, P.A., Rockville, Maryland, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  L. Peter Farkas, Robert H. Morse, Farkas & Morse, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  J. Philip Kessel, Jack A. Gold, Karp, Frosh, Lapidus, Wigodsky & Norwind, P.A., Rockville, Maryland, for Appellee Glenn Smoak;  John K. Villa, Richard A. Olderman, Robert M. Cary, Williams & Connolly, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee Jack L. Wuerker;  Haig V. Kalbian, Mark B. Sandground, Jr., Kalbian & Hagerty, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellees Brendan Kennedy and Tim Gay & Associates, P.C.;  William P. Dolan, Philip J. Harvey, Venable, L.L.P., Vienna, Virginia, for Appellee Dennis Cornelius.