United States Seventh Circuit

Where a federal court injunction expressly prohibited relitigation in state court of certain issues previously decided in federal court, and the defendant later raised at least one of the prohibited issues in state court, the district court was well within its discretion to find the defendant in contempt of its order and impose sanctions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/23/2002
• Decided 03/12/2002
• Published 03/12/2002

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, COFFEY and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Donald E. Wertheimer, argued, South Bend, IN, for Defendant-Appellant., Patrick D. Murphy, argued, Boveri, Murphy, Rice, Ryan & Ladue, South Bend IN, for Defendant-Appellee.