United States Fifth Circuit

In an underlying defamation suit, plaintiff unsuccessfully appealed summary judgment in favor of defendant on grounds that the district court gave improper res judicata effect to a federal district court in Utah that conflicted with Fifth Circuit holdings on similar issues.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/19/2004
• Published 07/19/2004

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, HIGGINBOTHAM and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stanley M. Chesley,Paul Michael DeMarco, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., Wilbert B. Markovits, Markovits & Greiwe, Cincinnati, OH, Michael T. Gallagher, Gallagher, Lewis, Downey & Kim, Richard A. Sheehy, Sheehy, Serpe & Ware, Houston, TX, Arthur R. Miller (argued), Harvard University of Law, Cambridge, MA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles L. Babcock (argued), David T. Moran, Carl C. Butzer, Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.