United States Fifth Circuit

In a claim for publication of defamatory credit information, res judicata is not a per se bar to a suit based on publications occurring after final judgment was entered in a prior matter, and signed releases will not preclude the present suit. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2002
• Published 07/01/2002

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Talmadge Lewis (argued), Pauline Shuler Lewis, Christopher Ethan Kittell, Lewis & Lewis, Clarksdale, MS, David Anthony Szwak, Bodenheimer, Jones & Szwak, Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Kevin John Christensen (argued), Hulse & Wanek, New Orleans, LA, for J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Cindy Dawn Hanson (argued), Bradley Jay Miller, Mara McRae, Kilpatrick Stockton, Atlanta, GA, Brian D. Roth, Sessions, Fishman & Nathan, New Orleans, LA, for Equifax Credit Information Services Inc., Frederick L. Cappel, Raggio, Cappel, Chozen & Berniard, Lake Charles, LA, for Credit Bureau of Lake Charles.