United States Fifth Circuit

An injunction, preventing the prosecution of an action in Australia, was improper where the foreign litigation was neither duplicitous nor vexatious, and the injunction was unnecessary to protect the U.S. district court's jurisdiction in a related case. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2002
• Published 08/27/2002

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edward Donald Burbach,Gary J. Siller, Christine Zebley Carbo (argued), Strasburger & Price, Joseph Warren Walker (argued), Franklin, Mosele & Walker, Houston, TX, Bob F. Wright, Thomas R. Edwards, Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., James Patrick Cooney (argued), Charalambos Apostolakopoulos, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.